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We analyze a problem of optimal control of the Fokker-Planck equation with state constraints in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Our main result is to derive optimality conditions in the form of a Mean Field Game system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin

We extend the classical Bernstein inequality to a general setting including Schr{\"o}dinger operators and divergence form elliptic operators on Riemannian manifolds or domains. Moreover , we prove a new reverse inequality that can be seen…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Rafik Imekraz , El Maati Ouhabaz

We consider a semi-linear heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions and globally Lipschitz nonlinearity, posed on a bounded domain of R^N (N $\in$ N *), assumed to be an unknown perturbation of a reference domain. We are interested…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Pierre Lissy , Yannick Privat , Yacouba Simporé

We prove duality estimates for time-fractional and more general subdiffusion problems. An important example is given by subdiffusive porous medium type equations. Our estimates can be used to prove uniqueness of weak solutions to such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Arlúcio Viana , Patryk Wolejko , Rico Zacher

The aim of this work is to present some strategies to solve numerically controllability problems for the two-dimensional heat equation, the Stokes equations and the Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The main idea…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Enrique Fernández-Cara , Arnaud Münch , Diego A. Souza

We consider an optimal control problem with ergodic (long term average) reward for a McKean-Vlasov dynamics, where the coefficients of a controlled stochastic differential equation depend on the marginal law of the solution. Starting from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Marco Fuhrman , Silvia Rudà

We study the global wellposedness of pressure-less Eulerian dynamics in multi-dimensions, with radially symmetric data. Compared with the 1D system, a major difference in multi-dimensional Eulerian dynamics is the presence of the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Changhui Tan

Several concepts of generalized differentiation in Wasserstein space have been proposed in order to deal with the intrinsic nonsmoothness arising in the context of optimization problems in Wasserstein spaces. In this paper we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Rossana Capuani , Antonio Marigonda , Marc Quincampoix

Increasingly complex data analysis tasks motivate the study of the dependency of distributions of multivariate continuous random variables on scalar or vector predictors. Statistical regression models for distributional responses so far…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-21 Jianing Fan , Hans-Georg Müller

This paper is devoted to the study of gradient estimates for the Dirichlet problem of the heat equation in the exterior domain of a compact set. Our results describe the time decay rates of the derivatives of solutions to the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Vladimir Georgiev , Koichi Taniguchi

In finite dimension, the long-time and metastable behavior of a gradient flow perturbated by a small Brownian noise is well understood. A similar situation arises when a Wasserstein gradient flow over a space of probability measure is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Pierre Monmarché

The present article discusses the exact observability of the wave equation when the observation subset of the boundary is variable in time. In the one-dimensional case, we prove an equivalent condition for the exact observability, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Antonio Agresti , Daniele Andreucci , Paola Loreti

Distributionally robust control (DRC) aims to effectively manage distributional ambiguity in stochastic systems. While most existing works address inaccurate distributional information in fully observable settings, we consider a partially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

For general second order evolution equations, we prove an optimal condition on the degree of unboundedness of the damping, that rules out finite-time extinction. We show that control estimates give energy decay rates that explicitly depend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Perry Kleinhenz , Ruoyu P. T. Wang

We discuss first-order and second-order regularization effects for solutions to the classical heat equation. In particular we propose a global approach to study smoothing effects of Hamilton-Li-Yau type: such approach is nonlinear in spirit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Alessandro Goffi , Giulio Tralli

By using the spectrum of the underlying symmetric diffusion operator, the convergence in $L^p$-Wasserstein distance $\mathbb W_p (p\ge 1)$ is characterized for the empirical measure $\mu_t$ of non-symmetric subordinated diffusion processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Feng-Yu Wang

By using stochastic analysis, two probability versions of Li-Yau type inequalities are established for diffusion semigroups on a manifold possibly with (non-convex) boundary. The inequalities are explicitly given by the Bakry-Emery…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Feng-Yu Wang , Li-Juan Cheng

We consider an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear PDE in cases where the optimal control is of bang-bang type. By utilizing the theory of Bessel potential space, we characterize quadratic growth of the objective via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, the Lie symmetry analysis is proposed for a space-time convection-diffusion fractional differential equations with the Riemann-Liouville derivative by (2+1) independent variables and one dependent variable. We find a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Rohollah Bakhshandeh-Chamazkoti , Mohsen Alipour

We prove the equivalence of the curvature-dimension bounds of Lott-Sturm-Villani (via entropy and optimal transport) and of Bakry--\'Emery (via energy and \Gamma_2$-calculus) in complete generality for infinitesimally Hilbertian metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Matthias Erbar , Kazumasa Kuwada , Karl-Theodor Sturm