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Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time ("strong anomaly") and share the interesting property that the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter , I. M. Sokolov

In a previous work, a perturbative approach to a class of Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and small time-dependent drift coefficients, was developed by exploiting the close connection between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho

We study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation on graphs, which is the gradient flow in the space of probability measures supported on the nodes with respect to the discrete Wasserstein metric. The energy functional driving the gradient flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

We obtain new exact classes of solutions for the nonlinear fractional Fokker-Planck-like equation partial_t rho = partial_x{D(x) partial^{mu -1}_x rho^{nu} - F(x) rho} by considering a diffusion coefficient D = D|x|^{-theta} (theta in R and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. K. Lenzi , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes , I. T. Pedron

This paper collects results concerning global rates and large time asymptotics of a fractional fast diffusion on the Euclidean space, which is deeply related with a family of fractional Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequalities. Generically,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Jean Dolbeault , An Zhang

We study the Fokker-Planck diffusion equation with diffusion coefficient depending periodically on the space variable. Inside a periodic array of inclusions the diffusion coefficient is reduced by a factor called the diffusion magnitude. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 M. Amar , D. Andreucci , E. N. M. Cirillo

We establish sharp long time asymptotic behaviour for a family of entropies to defective Fokker-Planck equations and show that, much like defective finite dimensional ODEs, their decay rate is an exponential multiplied by a polynomial in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Tobias Wöhrer

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We consider Fokker-Planck equations with tilted periodic potential in the subcritical regime and characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of the partial masses in the limit of vanishing diffusion. Our convergence proof relies on suitably…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Michael Herrmann , Barbara Niethammer

In this paper we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation with asymptotically small parameters. It describes the diffusion of finite-size particles in the presence of a fixed distribution of obstacles in the limit of low-volume fraction.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , Helene Ranetbauer , Marie-Therese Wolfram

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq

We study the Fokker-Planck equation derived in the large system limit of the Markovian process describing the dynamics of quantitative traits. The Fokker-Planck equation is posed on a bounded domain and its transport and diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Katarina Bodova , Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich

We analyze numerically a forward-backward diffusion equation with a cubic-like diffusion function, -emerging in the framework of phase transitions modeling- and its "entropy" formulation determined by considering it as the singular limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Pauline Lafitte , Corrado Mascia

By constructing successful couplings for degenerate diffusion processes, explicit derivative formula and Harnack type inequalities are presented for solutions to a class of degenerate Fokker-Planck equations on $\R^m\times\R^{d}$. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Arnaud Guillin , Feng-Yu Wang

Using the curvature-dimension inequality proved in Part~I, we look at consequences of this inequality in terms of the interaction between the sub-Riemannian geometry and the heat semigroup $P_t$ corresponding to the sub-Laplacian. We give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Erlend Grong , Anton Thalmaier

In this work, we explore both the ordinary $q$-Gaussian distribution and a new one defined here, determining both their mean and variance, and we use them to construct solutions of the $q$-deformed diffusion differential equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Won Sang Chung , L. M. Nieto , Soroush Zare , Hassan Hassanabadi

We introduce a stochastic particle system that corresponds to the Fokker-Planck equation with decay in the many-particles limit, and study its large deviations. We show that the large-deviation rate functional corresponds to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-08 Mark Peletier , Michiel Renger , Marco Veneroni

In this paper, we investigate the spectral analysis (from the point of view of semi-groups) of discrete, fractional and classical Fokker-Planck equations. Discrete and fractional Fokker-Planck equations converge in some sense to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Stéphane Mischler , Isabelle Tristani

This note briefly presents a new method for enlarging the functional space of a "spectral-gap-like" estimate of exponential decay on a semigroup. A particular case of the method was first devised in hal-00076709 for the spatially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Clément Mouhot

We investigate isoperimetric constants of infinite tessellating metric graphs. We introduce a curvature-like quantity, which plays the role of a metric graph analogue of discrete curvature notions for combinatorial tessellating graphs. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Noema Nicolussi