| Abstract: |
| We develop a theory of nonlinear Markov processes in the sense of McKean`s seminal work from 1966 and provide a general construction of such processes with one-dimensional time marginals given by solutions to nonlinear Fokker--Planck--Kolmogorov equations. These processes consist of path laws of weak solutions to the corresponding McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equation. We stress that neither of these equations needs to be well-posed. Our theory applies to a large new class of examples, e.g. the porous media equation (PME) on $\R^d$, $d \geq 1$, with general diffusivity and transport-type drift, which includes the classical PME with its Barenblatt solutions as the one-dimensional time marginal densities of the corresponding nonlinear Markov process. |
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