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We give a geometric formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kramer equations for a particle moving on a Lie algebra under the influence of a dissipative and a random force. Special cases of interest are fluid mechanics, the Stochastic Loewner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 S. G. Rajeev

Following the recent study on the emergent Friedmann equation from the expansion of cosmic space for a flat universe, we apply this method to a nonflat universe, and modify the evolution equation to lead to the Friedmann equation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-08 Myungseok Eune , Wontae Kim

Minkowski spacetime is a convenient setting for the study of the relativistic dynamics of particles and fields in the vacuum. In order to study events that occur in a dielectric or other linear medium, we adopt the familiar continuum…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-02-27 Michael E. Crenshaw

We study the asymptotic behavior of Fokker-Planck equations with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinear diffusion, based on the energy dissipation law. First, we consider the Fokker-Planck equation with porous-medium-type nonlinear diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kouta Araki , Masashi Mizuno

The problem of diffusion in a time-dependent (and generally inhomogeneous) external field is considered on the basis of a generalized master equation with two times, introduced in [1,2]. We consider the case of the quasi Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , O. F. Petrov , P. P. J. M. Schram

We derive diffusive macroscopic equations for the particle and energy density of a system whose time evolution is described by a kinetic equation for the one particle position and velocity function f(r,v,t) that consists of a part that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro L. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz

The Fokker-Planck equation describing the transport of energetic particles interacting with turbulence is difficult to solve analytically. Numerical solutions are of course possible but they are not always useful for applications. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

The systematic expansion method of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is developed by generalizing the formulation proposed in [J. Phys. A50, 325001 (2017)]. Using this method, we obtain a new formula to calculate the mean work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-05 T. Koide

We consider a thermodynamically correct framework for electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems, which feature a monotone entropy functional while conserving the total charge and the total energy. For these systems, we construct a relative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Michael Kniely

We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Rosu

We study the main properties of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation characterized by a variable diffusion coefficient and a polynomial superlinear drift, modeling the formation of consensus in a large interacting system of individuals.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

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 study the time behavior of the Fokker-Planck equation in Zwanzig rule (the backward-Ito rule) based on the Langevin equation of Brownian motion with an anomalous diffusion in a complex medium. The diffusion coefficient is a function in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ran Guo , Jiulin Du

We study existence and long-time behavior of weak solutions to a thin-film equation with a confinement potential and a second-order degenerate diffusion term. It is known that in absence of second order effects, solutions for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Christian Parsch

Inspired by Hongjie Dong and Qi S. Zhang's article \cite{ZQ2}, we find that the analyticity in time for a smooth solution of the heat equation with exponential quadratic growth in the space variable can be extended to any complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Ling Wu

Error estimates are proved for finite element approximations to the solution of second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients varying in both space and time. Optimal rates of convergence in the energy norm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Oussama Al Jarroudi , Marcus J. Grote

Starting from the Liouville equation, we derive the exact hierarchy of equations satisfied by the reduced distribution functions of the single species point vortex gas in two dimensions. Considering an expansion of the solution in powers of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis

Kinetics of systems specified by anharmonic, nonconservative and nonlocally coupled model Hamiltonians is reproduced in the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation techniques with subsequent symplectic integration. Test…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Klotins