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In this article, exponential contraction in Wasserstein distance for heat semigroups of diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds is established under curvature conditions where Ricci curvature is not necessarily required to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Li-Juan Cheng , Anton Thalmaier , Shao-Qin Zhang

We obtain the first rigorous derivation of an incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with self-consistent and time-dependent forcing terms from the inelastic hard-spheres Boltzmann equation associated to the relevant case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 R. Alonso , B. Lods , I. Tristani

Non-linear versions of log-Sobolev inequalities, that link a free energy to its dissipation along the corresponding Wasserstein gradient flow (i.e. corresponds to Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequalities in this context), are known to provide global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Pierre Monmarché , Julien Reygner

We provide an explicit rigorous derivation of a diffusion limit - a stochastic differential equation with additive noise - from a deterministic skew-product flow. This flow is assumed to exhibit time-scale separation and has the form of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-27 I. Melbourne , A. M. Stuart

We derive Wasserstein distance bounds between the probability distributions of a stochastic integral (It\^o) process with jumps $(X_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$ and a jump-diffusion process $(X^\ast_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$. Our bounds are expressed using the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Jean-Christophe Breton , Nicolas Privault

We consider the dynamic large deviation behaviour of Kac's collisional process for a range of initial conditions including equilibrium. We prove an upper bound with a rate function of the type which has previously been found for kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Daniel Heydecker

We compute the entropy production engendered in the environment from a single Brownian particle which moves in a mean flow, and show that it corresponds in expectation to classical near-equilibrium entropy production in the surrounding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-06 Yueheng Lan , Erik Aurell

The observation of fluid-like behavior in nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions motivates systematic studies of how different measurements approach their fluid-dynamic limit. We have developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Aleksi Kurkela , Seyed Farid Taghavi , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

Considering a gas of self-propelled particles with binary interactions, we derive the hydrodynamic equations governing the density and velocity fields from the microscopic dynamics, in the framework of the associated Boltzmann equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-09 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Grégoire

We develop a rigorous theory of hard-sphere dynamics in the kinetic regime, away from thermal equilibrium. In the low density limit, the empirical density obeys a law of large numbers and the dynamics is governed by the Boltzmann equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

Gradient flow in the 2-Wasserstein space is widely used to optimize functionals over probability distributions and is typically implemented using an interacting particle system with $n$ particles. Analyzing these algorithms requires showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chandan Tankala , Dheeraj M. Nagaraj , Anant Raj

We study a class of quadratic Wasserstein distances on spaces consisting of generalized dynamical systems on a von Neumann algebra. We emphasize how symmetry of such a Wasserstein distance arises, but also study the asymmetric case. This…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Rocco Duvenhage

We introduce a Kac's type walk whose rate of binary collisions preserves the total momentum but not the kinetic energy. In the limit of large number of particles we describe the dynamics in terms of empirical measure and flow, proving the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini , Carlo Orrieri

It is well known that nonlinear diffusion equations can be interpreted as a gradient flow in the space of probability measures equipped with the Euclidean Wasserstein distance. Under suitable convexity conditions on the nonlinearity, due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-13 François Bolley , José A. Carrillo

Stochastic processes are proposed whose master equations coincide with classical wave, telegraph, and Klein-Gordon equations. Similar to predecessors based on the Goldstein-Kac telegraph process, the model describes the motion of particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Plyukhin

The exponential contraction in $L^1$-Wasserstein distance and exponential convergence in $L^q$-Wasserstein distance ($q\geq 1$) are considered for stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. When the irregular drift drift is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Shao-Qin Zhang

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

We modify the JKO scheme, which is a time discretization of Wasserstein gradient flows, by replacing the Wasserstein distance with more general transport costs on manifolds. We show when the cost function has a mixed Hessian which defines a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Cale Rankin , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

Wasserstein gradient flows on probability measures have found a host of applications in various optimization problems. They typically arise as the continuum limit of exchangeable particle systems evolving by some mean-field interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Sewoong Oh , Soumik Pal , Raghav Somani , Raghavendra Tripathi

We prove the convergence of an implicit time discretization for the one-phase Mullins-Sekerka equation, possibly with additional non-local repulsion, proposed in [F. Otto, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 141 (1998) 63--103]. Our simple argument…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Antonin Chambolle , Tim Laux