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In the present work we formally extend the theory of port-Hamiltonian systems to include random perturbations. In particular, suitably choosing the space of flow and effort variables we will show how several elements coming from possibly…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Riccardo Muradore

Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

The conventional Langevin equation offers a mathematically convenient framework for investigating open stochastic systems interacting with their environment or a bath. However, it is not suitable for a wide variety of systems whose dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 Jong-Min Park , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee

A variational formulation of accelerated optimization on normed spaces was recently introduced by considering a specific family of time-dependent Bregman Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems whose corresponding trajectories converge to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

Employing a phase space which includes the (Riemann-Liouville) fractional derivative of curves evolving on real space, we develop a restricted variational principle for Lagrangian systems yielding the so-called restricted fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Based on stochastic curvilinear integrals in the Cairoli-Walsh sense and in the It\^{o}-Udri\c{s}te sense, we develop an original theory regarding the multitime stochastic differential systems. The first group of the original results refer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Constantin Udriste , Virgil Damian

The present paper develops a variational theory of discrete fields defined on abstract cellular complexes. The discrete formulation is derived solely from a variational principle associated to a discrete Lagrangian density on a discrete…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 A. C. Casimiro , C. Rodrigo

A cylindrical Levy process does not enjoy a cylindrical version of the semi-martingale decomposition which results in the need to develop a completely novel approach to stochastic integration. In this work, we introduce a stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Adam Jakubowski , Markus Riedle

We present high-order variational Lagrangian finite element methods for compressible fluids using a discrete energetic variational approach. Our spatial discretization is mass/momentum/energy conserving and entropy stable. Fully implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Guosheng Fu , Chun Liu

The differential stochastic variational inequality with parametric convex optimization (DSVI-O) is an ordinary differential equation whose right-hand side involves a stochastic variational inequality and solutions of several dynamic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Xiaojun Chen , Jian Guo , Guan Wang

We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

Stochastic variational inference (SVI) is emerging as the most promising candidate for scaling inference in Bayesian probabilistic models to large datasets. However, the performance of these methods has been assessed primarily in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-29 Amar Shah , David A. Knowles , Zoubin Ghahramani

We introduce Support Decomposition Variational Inference (SDVI), a new variational inference (VI) approach for probabilistic programs with stochastic support. Existing approaches to this problem rely on designing a single global variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Tim Reichelt , Luke Ong , Tom Rainforth

Hamilton variational principle for special type of statistical ensemble of deterministic dynamical systems is derived. Thie form of variational principle allows one to describe the statistical ensemble in terms of wave functions and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

In this paper, we explore the application of Machine Learning techniques, specifically Support Vector Machines (SVM), to unveil the chaotic and regular nature of trajectories in Hamiltonian systems using Lagrangian descriptors. Traditional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Javier Jiménez López , Víctor José García Garrido

Exploring the intersection of deterministic and stochastic dynamics, this paper delves into Lagrangian discovery for conservative and non-conservative systems under stochastic excitation. Traditional Lagrangian frameworks, adept at…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Tapas Tripura , Satyam Panda , Budhaditya Hazra , Souvik Chakraborty

We develop the connection between large deviation theory and more applied approaches to stochastic hybrid systems by highlighting a common underlying Hamiltonian structure. A stochastic hybrid system involves the coupling between a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Paul Bressloff , Olivier Faugeras

We show how Langevin diffusions can be interpreted in the context of stochastic Hamiltonian systems with structure-preserving noise and dissipation on reductive Lie groups. Reductive Lie groups provide the setting in which the Lie group…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Erwin Luesink , Oliver D. Street

Stochastic evolution underpins several approaches to the dynamics of open quantum systems, such as random modulation of Hamiltonian parameters, the stochastic Schrodinger equation (SSE), and the stochastic Liouville equation (SLE). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Pietro De Checchi , Federico Gallina , Barbara Fresch , Giulio G. Giusteri

The purpose of this paper is to describe geometrically discrete Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics on Lie groupoids. From a variational principle we derive the discrete Euler-Lagrange equations and we introduce a symplectic 2-section,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-16 J. C. Marrero , D. Martín de Diego , E. Martínez