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It was recently established that the formalism of the generalized transfer operator (GTO) of dynamical systems (DS) theory, applied to stochastic differential equations (SDEs) of arbitrary form, belongs to the family of cohomological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Igor V. Ovchinnikov

Here, it is shown that the path-integral representation of any stochastic or deterministic continuous-time dynamical model is a cohomological or Witten-type topological field theory, i.e., a model with global topological supersymmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Igor V. Ovchinnikov

In this paper, we investigate numerically the stochastic ABC model, a toy model in the theory of astrophysical kinematic dynamos, within the recently proposed supersymmetric theory of stochastics (STS). STS characterises stochastic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-19 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Yuquan Sun , Torsten A. Ensslin , Kang. L. Wang

The Ito and Stratonovich approaches are carried over to quantum stochastic systems. Here the white noise representation is shown to be the most appropriate as here the two approaches appear as Wick and Weyl orderings, respectively. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 John Gough

Many natural and engineered dynamical systems, including all living objects, exhibit signatures of what can be called spontaneous dynamical long-range order (DLRO). This order's omnipresence has long been recognized by the scientific…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Igor V. Ovchinnikov

The concept of deterministic dynamical chaos has a long history and is well established by now. Nevertheless, its field theoretic essence and its stochastic generalization have been revealed only very recently. Within the newly found…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Robert N. Schwartz , Kang L. Wang

We explore the connections between the theories of stochastic analysis and discrete quantum mechanical systems. Naturally these connections include the Feynman-Kac formula, and the Cameron-Martin-Girsanov theorem. More precisely, the notion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Anastasia Doikou , Simon J. A. Malham , Anke Wiese

Mean-field stochastic differential equations, also called McKean--Vlasov equations, are the limiting equations of interacting particle systems with fully symmetric interaction potential. Such systems play an important role in a variety of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Eirini Ioannou , Stefan Klus , Gonçalo dos Reis

A generalisation of Takens' delay-coordinate embedding theorem to stochastic systems, the Stochastic Embedding Sufficiency Theorem, is an inverse methodology enabling non-parametric recovery of both drift and diffusion fields from scalar…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Carolina Garcia , Lucía Perea Durán , Agnese Venezia , Alex Conradie

This paper is a continuation of the study [Chaos.22.033134] of the relation between the stochastic dynamical systems (DS) and the Witten-type topological field theories (TFT). Here, it is discussed that stochastic expectation values of a DS…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Igor V. Ovchinnikov

We offer a spectral analysis for a class of transfer operators. These transfer operators arise for a wide range of stochastic processes, ranging from random walks on infinite graphs to the processes that govern signals and recursive wavelet…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song

Non-integrability in the sense of dynamical systems, also known as dynamical chaos, is a strongly nonlinear qualitative phenomenon. Its most promising theoretical descriptions are likely to emerge from non-perturbative approaches, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-25 Igor V. Ovchinnikov

Dynamical system properties give rise to effects in Statistical Mechanics. Topological index changes can be the basis for phase transitions. The Euler characteristic is a versatile topological invariant that can be evaluated for model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

We study the Witten-type topological field theory(W-TFT) of self-organized criticality(SOC) for stochastic neural networks. The Parisi-Sourlas-Wu quantization of general stochastic differential equations (SDEs) for neural networks, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-31 Jian Zhai , Chaojun Yu , You Zhai

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) transport is inherently invariant under isometric transformations of the data. Having this property in mind, we propose to estimate dynamical systems by transfer operators derived from GW transport plans, when merely…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Florian Beier

In this paper we study the dynamics of a fast-slow Fokker-Planck partial differential equation (PDE) viewed as the evolution equation for the density of a multiscale planar stochastic differential equation (SDE). Our key focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach

Understanding the generalization properties of heavy-tailed stochastic optimization algorithms has attracted increasing attention over the past years. While illuminating interesting aspects of stochastic optimizers by using heavy-tailed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Benjamin Dupuis , Umut Şimşekli

This paper establishes a Transition Path Theory (TPT) for L\'{e}vy-type processes, addressing a critical gap in the study of the transition mechanism between meta-stabile states in non-Gaussian stochastic systems. A key contribution is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Yuanfei Huang , Xiang Zhou

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) are fundamental for modeling stochastic dynamics across the natural sciences and modern machine learning. Learning their solution operators with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Dai Shi , Lequan Lin , Andi Han , Luke Thompson , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Zhiyong Wang , Junbin Gao

We show that the standard discrete update rule of transformer layers can be naturally interpreted as a forward Euler discretization of a continuous dynamical system. Our Transformer Flow Approximation Theorem demonstrates that, under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jacob Fein-Ashley
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