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We develop a class of barycenter problems based on mean field control problems in three dimensions with associated reactive-diffusion systems of unnormalized multi-species densities. This problem is the generalization of the Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Arjun Vijaywargiya , Guosheng Fu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

In this paper, motivated by the works of Bakry et. al in finding sharp Li-Yau type gradient estimate for positive solutions of the heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonzero Ricci curvature lower bound, we first introduce a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Chengjie Yu , Feifei Zhao

We develop a relativistic lattice Boltzmann (LB) model, providing a more accurate description of dissipative phenomena in relativistic hydrodynamics than previously available with existing LB schemes. The procedure applies to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Mendoza , I. Karlin , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

The goal of this work is to compute a boundary control of reaction-diffusion partial differential equation. The boundary control is subject to a constant delay, whereas the equation may be unstable without any control. For this system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

We define a modified Wasserstein distance for distribution clustering which inherits many of the properties of the Wasserstein distance but which can be estimated easily and computed quickly. The modified distance is the sum of two terms.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-31 Isabella Verdinelli , Larry Wasserman

Via a Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula from [KPP23], we derive uniform gradient estimates for transition semigroups associated with stochastic differential equations driven by a large class of cylindrical L\'{e}vy processes which includes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thanh Dang , Lingjiong Zhu

We obtain a novel interior control result for wave equations on time dependent domains. This is done by deriving a suitable Carleman estimate and proving the corresponding observability inequality. We consider the wave equation with time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Vaibhav Kumar Jena

In this paper, we propose a modification to the density approach to Stein's method for intervals for the unit circle $\mathbb{S}^1$ which is motivated by the differing geometry of $\mathbb{S}^1$ to Euclidean space. We provide an upper bound…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Alexander Lewis

We consider a steady-state heat conduction problem in a multidimensional bounded domain Omega for the Poisson equation with constant internal energy g and mixed boundary conditions given by a constant temperature b in the portion Gamma_1 of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Julieta Bollati , Claudia M. Gariboldi , Domingo A. Tarzia

Given a complete, smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ with the Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded from below, various gradient estimates for solutions of the following general $f$-heat equations $$ u_t=\Delta_f u+au\log u+bu…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Nguyen Thac Dung , Nguyen Ngoc Khanh , Quôc Anh Ngô

A recurring obstacle in the study of Wasserstein gradient flow is the lack of convexity of the square Wasserstein metric. In this paper, we develop a class of transport metrics that have better convexity properties and use these metrics to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Katy Craig

The purpose of this work is to study some monotone functionals of the heat kernel on a complete Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. In particular, we show that on these manifolds, the gradient estimate of Li and Yau, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Fabrice Baudoin , Nicola Garofalo

Solutions of a system of wave equations are constructed for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions at every regularity level. We prove that boundary observability, and thus boundary exact controllability, at some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Thomas Perrin

In this paper, we prove that the time supremum of the Wasserstein distance between the time-marginals of a uniformly elliptic multidimensional diffusion with coefficients bounded together with their derivatives up to the order $2$ in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Aurélien Alfonsi , Benjamin Jourdain , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa

We prove quantitative stability estimates for Wasserstein barycenters on Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded from below. The proof combines the variational strategy of Carlier--Delalande--M\'erigot with heat-kernel regularization,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Bang-Xian Han , Zhuo-Nan Zhu

Latent-variable energy-based models (LVEBMs) assign a single normalized energy to joint pairs of observed data and latent variables, offering expressive generative modeling while capturing hidden structure. We recast maximum-likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shiqin Tang , Shuxin Zhuang , Rong Feng , Runsheng Yu , Hongzong Li , Youzhi Zhang

This work obtains sharp closed-form exponential concentration inequalities of Bernstein type for the ubiquitous beta distribution, improving upon sub-gaussian and sub-gamma bounds previously studied in this context. The proof leverages a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Maciej Skorski

We will study metric measure spaces $(X,d,m)$ beyond the scope of spaces with synthetic lower Ricci bounds. In particular, we introduce distribution-valued lower Ricci bounds BE$_1(\kappa,\infty)$ $\bullet$ for which we prove the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We study the non-uniformity of probability measures on the interval and the circle. On the interval, we identify the Wasserstein-$p$ distance with the classical $L^p$-discrepancy. We thereby derive sharp estimates in Wasserstein distances…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Cole Graham

We introduce a version of Stein's method of comparison of operators specifically tailored to the problem of bounding the Wasserstein-1 distance between continuous and discrete distributions on the real line. Our approach rests on a new…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Gilles Germain , Yvik Swan