English
Related papers

Related papers: Exponential convergence to equilibrium for kinetic…

200 papers

This paper deals with the long time behavior of solutions to a "fractional Fokker-Planck" equation of the form $\partial_t f = I[f] + \text{div}(xf)$ where the operator $I$ stands for a fractional Laplacian. We prove an exponential in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Isabelle Tristani

We present a new approach to analyze homogeneous nucleation based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The starting point is the formulation of a Gibbs equation for the variations of the entropy of the system, whose state is characterized by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera Lopez , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

The aim of this paper is to study the convergence of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation to the associated stationary state when time goes to infinity. The force field which we consider here is of a general structure, that is it may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Mamadou Ndao

We consider Fokker-Planck equations in the whole Euclidean space, driven by Levy processes, under the action of confining drifts, as in the classical Ornstein-Ulhenbeck model. We introduce a new PDE method to get exponential or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Alessio Porretta

We extend a recently introduced free-energy formalism for homogeneous Fokker-Planck equations to a wide, and physically appealing, class of inhomogeneous nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations. In our approach, the free-energy functional is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Gabriele Sicuro , Peter Rapčan , Constantino Tsallis

Due to its parabolic character, the diffusion equation exhibits instantaneous spatial spreading, and becomes unstable when Lorentz-boosted. According to the conventional interpretation, these features reflect a fundamental incompatibility…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Gavassino

In neuroscience, the distribution of a decision time is modelled by means of a one-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation with time-dependent boundaries and space-time-dependent drift. Efficient approximation of the solution to this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Udo Boehm , Sonja Cox , Gregor Gantner , Rob Stevenson

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

The Einstein-Vlasov-Fokker-Planck system describes the kinetic diffusion dynamics of self-gravitating particles within the Einstein theory of general relativity. We study the Cauchy problem for spatially homogeneous and isotropic solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Simone Calogero , Stephen Pankavich

The long time behavior and detailed convergence analysis of Langevin equations has received increased attention over the last years. Difficulties arise from a lack of coercivity, usually termed hypocoercivity, of the underlying kinetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

We propose a simple proof of the exponential convergence to equilibrium for ultrafast diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Our approach, based on the direct use of Poincar\'e inequality, gets rid of the optimal transport arguments used in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yi C. Huang , Xinhang Tong

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Calogero

We study the rate of convergence to equilibrium of the solutions to Fokker-Planck type equations with linear drift by means of Cram\'er and Energy distances, which have been recently widely used in problems related to AI, in particular for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gennaro Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani

Kinetic equilibration at late times is physically required for heavy particles in a finite temperature medium. In Fokker-Planck dynamics, it is ensured by the Einstein relation between the drag and longitudinal momentum diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-18 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Urs Achim Wiedemann

In a recent result by the authors (ref. [1]) it was proved that solutions of the self-similar fragmentation equation converge to equilibrium exponentially fast. This was done by showing a spectral gap in weighted $L^2$ spaces of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-06 María J. Cáceres , José A. Cañizo , Stéphane Mischler

In this paper we prove the strong and time-averaged strong convergence to equilibrium for solutions (with general initial data) of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Fermi-Dirac particles. The assumption on the collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Bocheng Liu , Xuguang Lu

We consider kinetic Fokker-Planck (or Vlasov-Fokker-Planck) equations on the torus with Maxwellian or fat tail local equilibria. Results based on weak norms have recently been achieved by S. Armstrong and J.-C. Mourrat in case of Maxwellian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Giovanni Brigati

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

We consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation is reduced to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 C. -L. Ho

In this article, we prove some convergence results for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with strong space confinement but fat-tailed local equilibria and non-explicit global steady states. We extend the results of \cite{C21} to a wider class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Emeric Bouin , Luca Ziviani