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Fractional Brownian motion, a stochastic process with long-time correlations between its increments, is a prototypical model for anomalous diffusion. We analyze fractional Brownian motion in the presence of a reflecting wall by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexander H. O. Wada , Thomas Vojta

We map the problem of diffusion in the quenched trap model onto a new stochastic process: Brownian motion which is terminated at the coverage "time" ${\cal S}_\alpha=\sum_{x=-\infty} ^\infty (n_x)^\alpha$ with $n_x$ being the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stas Burov , Eli Barkai

Path-wise observables--functionals of stochastic trajectories--are at the heart of time-average statistical mechanics and are central to thermodynamic inequalities such as uncertainty relations, speed limits, and correlation-bounds. They…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Lars Torbjørn Stutzer , Cai Dieball , Aljaž Godec

We study families of smooth immersed regular planar curves $ \alpha : \left [-1,1 \right ]\times \left [0,T \right )\to \mathbb{R}^{2}$ satisfying the fourth order nonlinear curve diffusion flow with generalised Neumann boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Mashniah Gazwani , James McCoy

Semi-Markov processes generalize Markov processes by adding temporal memory effects as expressed by a semi-Markov kernel. We recall the path weight for a semi-Markov trajectory and the fact that thermodynamic consistency in equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-15 Benjamin Ertel , Jann van der Meer , Udo Seifert

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

We propose a new concept of lifts of reversible diffusion processes and show that various well-known non-reversible Markov processes arising in applications are lifts in this sense of simple reversible diffusions. Furthermore, we introduce…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Andreas Eberle , Francis Lörler

Using pointwise semigroup techniques, we establish sharp rates of decay in space and time of a perturbed reaction diffusion front to its time-asymptotic limit. This recovers results of Sattinger, Henry and others of time-exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Yingwei Li

Probabilistic generative models based on measure transport, such as diffusion and flow-based models, are often formulated in the language of Markovian stochastic dynamics, where the choice of the underlying process impacts both algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yinuo Ren , Grant M. Rotskoff , Lexing Ying

A simple Markov process is considered involving a diffusion in one direction and a transport in a transverse direction. Quantitative mixing rate estimates are obtained with limited assumptions about the transport field, which might be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Xu'an Dou , Delphine Salort , Didier Smets

In this paper we show that a process modeled by a strongly continuous real-valued semigroup (that has a space convolution operator as infinitesimal generator) cannot satisfy causality. We present and analyze a causal model of diffusion that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Richard Kowar

We study Markov processes associated with stochastic differential equations, whose non-linearities are gradients of convex functionals. We prove a general result of existence of such Markov processes and a priori estimates on the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Giuseppe Savare , Lorenzo Zambotti

The first paper of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 034103 (2023)] demonstrated that excess entropy scaling holds for both fine-grained and corresponding coarse-grained (CG) systems. Despite its universality, a more exact determination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

We derive the exact evolution equation for the probability density function of particle displacements generated by arbitrary Gaussian velocity processes, when neither Markovianity and nor stationarity are assumed. Starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Alessandro Taloni , Gianni Pagnini , Aleksei Chechkin

This is the second part of the series of papers on symmetry properties of a class of variable coefficient (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-convection equations of general form $f(x)u_t=(g(x)A(u)u_x)_x+h(x)B(u)u_x$. At first, we review…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-17 N. M. Ivanova , R. O. Popovych , C. Sophocleous

We prove that weakly continuous solutions to martingale problems admit a canonical regular conditional probability distribution. This allows for the construction of time consistent convex dynamic procedures in a non dominated setting.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Jocelyne Bion-Nadal

The skew-product diffusion [Ann. Appl. Probab. 35, 3150--3214 (2025)] and exponentially tilted planar Brownian motion [Electron. J. Probab. 30, 1--97 (2025)] are canonical examples of planar diffusions with a point interaction at the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Barkat Mian

A model for diffusion in liquids that couples the dynamics of tracer particles to a fluctuating Stokes equation for the fluid is investigated in the limit of large Schmidt number. In this limit, the concentration of tracers is shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , and E. Vanden-Eijnden

A well-known consequence of the Pr{\'e}kopa-Leindler inequality is the preservation of logconcavity by the heat semigroup. Unfortunately, this property does not hold for more general semigroups. In this paper, we exhibit a slightly weaker…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Giovanni Conforti , Katharina Eichinger

Granular flows down inclined channels with smooth boundaries are common in nature and in the industry. Nevertheless, the common setup of flat boundaries has comparatively been much less investigated than the bumpy boundaries one, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-12 Nicolas Brodu , Patrick Richard , Renaud Delannay