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Higher order free moments and cumulants, introduced by Collins, Mingo, \'Sniady and Speicher in 2006, describe the fluctuations of unitarily invariant random matrices in the limit of infinite size. The functional relations between their…
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One introduces a new variational concept of solution for the stochastic differential equation $dX+A(t)X\,dt+\lambda X\,dt=X\,dW,$ $t\in(0,T)$; $X(0)=x$ in a real Hilbert space where $A(t)=\partial\varphi(t)$, $t\in(0,T)$, is a maximal…
In this paper we use a Variational Quantum Algorithm to solve Initial Value Problems with the Implicit Crank-Nicolson and the Method of Lines (MoL) evolution schemes. The unknown functions use a spectral decomposition with the Fourier…
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We introduce a stochastic fractional calculus. As an application, we present a stochastic fractional calculus of variations, which generalizes the fractional calculus of variations to stochastic processes. A stochastic fractional…
Ordinary differential equations have an arithmetic analogue in which functions are replaced by numbers and the derivation operator is replaced by a Fermat quotient operator. In this survey we explain the main motivations, constructions,…