On diffeologies from infinite dimensional geometry to PDE constrained optimization

Abstract

We review how diffeologies complete the settings classically used from infinite dimensional geometry to partial differential equations, based on classical settings of functional analysis and with classical mapping spaces as key examples. As the classical examples of function spaces, we deal with manifolds of mappings in Sobolev classes (and describe the ILB setting), jet spaces and spaces of triangulations, that are key frameworks for the two fields of applications of diffeologies that we choose to highlight: evolution equations and integrable systems, and optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations.