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In this work, we consider the discretization of some nonlinear Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations. The scheme we propose preserves the non-negativity of the solution, conserves the mass and, as the discretization parameters tend to zero,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

We consider the linear Wigner-Fokker-Planck equation subject to confining potentials which are smooth perturbations of the harmonic oscillator potential. For a certain class of perturbations we prove that the equation admits a unique…

A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

We prove existence of a probability solution to the nonlinear stationary Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation on an infinite dimensional space with a centered Gaussian measure $\gamma$ with a unit diffusion operator and a drift of the form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Vladimir I. Bogachev , Michael Röckner , Stanislav V. Shaposhnikov

We introduce a novel spatio-temporal discretization for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations on the multi-dimensional unit cube. This discretization is based on two structural properties of these equations: the first is the representation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

The focus of this paper is a non-local singular non-linear Fokker-Planck partial differential equation (PDE). The peculiarity of this PDE feature is in its divergence coefficient, which presents a product between a Besov distribution and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Luca Bondi , Elena Issoglio , Francesco Russo

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

Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

A Fokker-Planck type equation for interacting particles with exclusion principle is analysed. The nonlinear drift gives rise to mathematical difficulties in controlling moments of the distribution function. Assuming enough initial moments…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-21 José A. Carrillo , Philippe Laurençot , Jesús Rosado

Kinetics of metastable systems modeled by Hamiltonians containing nonlocal and nonconservative terms is reproduced by the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation scheme with subsequent symplectic integration. Example solutions…

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

This article studies a Fokker-Planck type equation of fractional diffusion with conservative drift $\partial$f/$\partial$t = $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) f + div(Ef), where $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) denotes the fractional Laplacian and E is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Laurent Lafleche

We prove global existence, uniqueness and regularity of the mild, Lp and classical solution of a non-linear Fokker-Planck equation arising in an adaptive importance sampling method for molecular dynamics calculations. The non- linear term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Houssam Alrachid , Tony Lelièvre , Raafat Talhouk

We obtain equilibration rates for a one-dimensional nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent diffusion coefficient and drift, modeling the relaxation of a large swarm of robots, feeling each other in terms of their distance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Ferdinando Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We investigate the Cauchy problem and the diffusion asymptotics for a spatially inhomogeneous kinetic model associated to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck operator. We derive the global well-posedness result with instantaneous smoothness effect,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Francesca Anceschi , Yuzhe Zhu

We present the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) for an inhomogeneous medium with a position-dependent mass particle by making use of the Langevin equation, in the context of a generalized deformed derivative for an arbitrary deformation space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-17 Bruno G. da Costa , Ignacio S. Gomez , Ernesto P. Borges

We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alexandre Surin

The Fokker-Planck equation can be reformulated as a continuity equation, which naturally suggests using the associated velocity field in particle flow methods. While the resulting probability flow ODE offers appealing properties - such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-28 Ilja Klebanov

One obtains a probabilistic representation for the entropic generalized solutions to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in $\mathbb R^d$ with multivalued nonlinear diffusion term as density probabilities of solutions to a nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Viorel Barbu , Michael Röckner

We study the long time behaviour of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with mean field interaction, whose limit is often called Vlasov-Fkker-Planck equation. We prove a uniform (in the number of particles) exponential convergence to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Arnaud Guillin , Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

This paper investigates the local regularity of solutions to stationary Fokker-Planck equations on an open set $U \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \geq 2$. A central objective is to relax the classical assumptions on the coefficients by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Haesung Lee