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We design a particle interpretation of Feynman-Kac measures on path spaces based on a backward Markovian representation combined with a traditional mean field particle interpretation of the flow of their final time marginals. In contrast to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-19 Pierre Del Moral , Arnaud Doucet , Sumeetpal S. Singh

This article develops a methodology allowing application of the complete machinery of particle-based inference methods upon the class of continuous-discrete State Space Models (CD-SSMs). Such models correspond to a latent continuous-time…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-17 Christopher Stanton , Alexandros Beskos

Continuous time Feynman-Kac measures on path spaces are central in applied probability, partial differential equation theory, as well as in quantum physics. This article presents a new duality formula between normalized Feynman-Kac…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Marc Arnaudon , Pierre del Moral

The fractional Feynman-Kac equations describe the distribution of functionals of non-Brownian motion, or anomalous diffusion, including two types called the forward and backward fractional Feynman-Kac equations, where the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Jiahui Hu , Jungang Wang , Zhanbin Yuan , Zongze Yang , Yufeng Nie

We study mean-field particle approximations of normalized Feynman-Kac semi-groups, usually called Fleming-Viot or Feynman-Kac particle systems. Assuming various large time stability properties of the semi-group uniformly in the initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Lucas Journel , Mathias Rousset

This paper provides a theoretical framework of deriving the forward and backward Feynman-Kac equations for the distribution of functionals of the path of a particle undergoing both diffusion and chemical reaction. Very general forms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ru Hou , Weihua Deng

We provide and analyze the high order algorithms for the model describing the functional distributions of particles performing anomalous motion with power-law jump length and tempered power-law waiting time. The model is derived in [Wu,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Minghua Chen , Weihua Deng

This article is concerned with the design and analysis of discrete time Feynman-Kac particle integration models with geometric interacting jump processes. We analyze two general types of model, corresponding to whether the reference process…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Pierre Del Moral , Pierre E. Jacob , Anthony Lee , Lawrence Murray , Gareth W. Peters

We study 1-Wasserstein propagation of chaos for "McKean-type" nonlinear Markov chains and their associated interacting particle systems. This paper is organized into two parts: the first part combines arguments from various areas of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 James Vuckovic

The Feynman-Kac equations are a type of partial differential equations describing the distribution of functionals of diffusive motion. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, being a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen , Eli Barkai

In this master thesis, a new approximation scheme to non-relativistic potential scattering is developed and discussed. The starting points are two exact path integral representations of the T-matrix, which permit the application of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Julien Carron

In this work the standard kinetic theory assumption of instantaneous collisions is lifted. As a continuation of of a previous paper by Kanzler, Schmeiser, and Tora [KRM, 2024], a model for higher order non-instantaneous alignment collisions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Laura Kanzler , Carmela Moschella , Christian Schmeiser

Sequential and quantum Monte Carlo methods, as well as genetic type search algorithms can be interpreted as a mean field and interacting particle approximations of Feynman-Kac models in distribution spaces. The performance of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-03 François Giraud , Pierre Del Moral

Discretizations of the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the quantum mechanical density matrix are investigated. Each infinite-dimensional path integral is approximated by a Riemann integral over a finite-dimensional function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bond , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

This chapter provides a tutorial overview of first principles methods to describe the properties of matter at the ground state or equilibrium. It begins with a brief introduction to quantum and statistical mechanics for predicting the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianzhong Wu , Mengyang Gu

This paper deals with the numerical approximation of normalizing constants produced by particle methods, in the general framework of Feynman-Kac sequences of measures. It is well-known that the corresponding estimates satisfy a central…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Jean Bérard , Pierre Del-Moral , Arnaud Doucet

The notion of propagation of chaos for large systems of interacting particles originates in statistical physics and has recently become a central notion in many areas of applied mathematics. The present review describes old and new methods…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Antoine Diez

This article establishes sufficient conditions for a linear-in-time bound on the non-asymptotic variance of particle approximations of time-homogeneous Feynman-Kac formulae. These formulae appear in a wide variety of applications including…

Computation · Statistics 2012-02-14 Nick Whiteley , Nikolas Kantas , Ajay Jasra

In this paper we investigate the speed of convergence of the fluctuations of a general class of Feynman-Kac particle approximation models. We design an original approach based on new Berry-Esseen type estimates for abstract martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Del Moral , Samy Tindel

In this paper, we provide a representation theory for the Feynman operator calculus. This allows us to solve the general initial-value problem and construct the Dyson series. We show that the series is asymptotic, thus proving Dyson's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. L. Gill , W. W Zachary
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