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Disformal transformation is a generalisation of the well-known conformal transformation commonly elaborated in mainstream graduate texts in gravity (relativity) and modern cosmology. This transformation is one of the most important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Allan L. Alinea

In this paper, we find a gap between the lower bound of the Bakry-\'Emery $N$-Ricci tensor ${\rm Ric}_N$ and the Bakry-\'Emery gradient estimate ${\sf BE}$ in the space associated with the finite-particle Dyson Brownian motion (DBM) with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Kohei Suzuki , Kenshiro Tashiro

We study diffusive mixing in the presence of thermal fluctuations under the assumption of large Schmidt number. In this regime we obtain a limiting equation that contains a diffusive thermal drift term with diffusion coefficient obeying a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , E. Vanden-Eijnden

Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary $\partial M$. For any $C^1$-vector field $Z$, by using gradient/functional inequalities of the (reflecting) diffusion process generated by $L:=\Delta+Z$, pointwise…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Feng-Yu Wang , Bo Wu

Turing patterns emerge from a spatially uniform state following a linear instability driven by diffusion. Features of the eventual pattern (stabilized by non-linearities) are already present in the initial unstable modes. On a uniform flat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-31 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Henry Shackleton

We establish a new set of pointwise inequalities that order curvature invariants across various Petrov and Segre types of spacetimes. In arbitrary spacetime dimension, we systematically analyze inequalities among contractions of the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Ivica Smolić

In this paper, we explore a stationary BTZ space-time within the framework of modified gravity theory, specifically focusing on Ricci-inverse gravity. It is important to clarify that ``Ricci-inverse" refers to the inverse of the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Faizuddin Ahmed , Abdelmalek Bouzenada

Inferring a diffusion equation from discretely-observed measurements is a statistical challenge of significant importance in a variety of fields, from single-molecule tracking in biophysical systems to modeling financial instruments.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-12 Yinuo Ren , Yiping Lu , Lexing Ying , Grant M. Rotskoff

The paper studies the relationship between diffraction and dynamics for uniformly discrete ergodic point processes in real spaces. This relationship takes the form of an isometric embedding of two L^2 spaces. Diffraction (or equivalently…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Xinghua Deng , Robert V. Moody

We compute the exact $L^2$ operator norm of the Cauchy transform \[ (C_\Omega f)(z)=\frac1\pi\int_\Omega \frac{f(w)}{z-w}\,dA(w) \] on a circular annulus $\Omega=A(r,R)=\{r<|z|<R\}$. Exploiting rotational symmetry and a Fourier mode…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-17 David Kalaj

We develop an effective theory for biased tracers formulated at the level of the Boltzmann equation, providing a unified description of density and velocity bias. We introduce a general effective collision term in the tracer Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Tomo Takahashi , Sora Yamashita

We suggest the diffuse approach to the relaxation processes within the kinetic theory for the Wigner distribution function. The diffusion and drift coefficients are evaluated taking into consideration the interparticle collisions on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-02 V. M. Kolomietz , S. V. Lukyanov

An expression for the two-particle relaxation time of collective excitations on a distorted Fermi surface in the diffusion approach to kinetic theory is obtained. The general case of momentum-dependent diffusion and drift coefficients is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-01 S. V. Lukyanov

We describe operators driving the time evolution of singular diffusion on finite graphs whose vertices are allowed to carry masses. The operators are defined by the method of quadratic forms on suitable Hilbert spaces. The model also covers…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Christian Seifert , Jürgen Voigt

In this paper we compute the Ricci flow formulas for invariant metrics on prinicpal $G$-bundles compatible with the connection. Our primary focus is on torus bundles which we use to study a notion of Bakry-\'Emery Ricci flow as well as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Dmytro Yeroshkin

For homogeneous metrics on the spaces of the title it is shown that the Ricci flow can move a metric of stricly positive sectional curvature to one with some negative sectional curvature and one of positive definite Ricci tensor to one with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Nolan R. Wallach

Some fractional and anomalous diffusions are driven by equations involving fractional derivatives in both time and space. Such diffusions are processes with randomly varying times. In representing the solutions to those diffusions, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Mirko D'Ovidio

We extend the range of $N$ to negative values in the $(K,N)$-convexity (in the sense of Erbar--Kuwada--Sturm), the weighted Ricci curvature $Ric_N$ and the curvature-dimension condition $CD(K,N)$. We generalize a number of results in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Shin-ichi Ohta

A new Combinatorial Ricci curvature and Laplacian operators for grayscale images are introduced and tested on 2D synthetic, natural and medical images. Analogue formulae for voxels are also obtained. These notions are based upon more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-12 Emil Saucan , Eli Appleboilm , Gershon Wolansky , Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

The transport of charged particles in various astrophysical environments permeated by magnetic fields is described in terms of a diffusion process, which relies on diffusion-tensor parameters generally inferred from Monte-Carlo simulations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-09 Olivier Deligny