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Consider a reflecting diffusion in a domain in $R^d$ that acquires drift in proportion to the amount of local time spent on the boundary of the domain. We show that the stationary distribution for the joint law of the position of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-15 Richard F. Bass , Krzysztof Burdzy , Zhen-Qing Chen , Martin Hairer

For a multidimensional driftless diffusion in an unbounded, smooth, sub-linear generalized parabolic domain, with oblique reflection from the boundary, we give natural conditions under which either explosion occurs, if the domain narrows…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Mikhail V. Menshikov , Aleksandar Mijatović , Andrew R. Wade

We consider a diffusion equation with highly oscillatory coefficients that admits a homogenized limit. As an alternative to standard corrector problems, we introduce here an embedded corrector problem, written as a diffusion equation in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Frederic Legoll , Benjamin Stamm

We describe a new, surprisingly simple algorithm, that simulates exact sample paths of a class of stochastic differential equations. It involves rejection sampling and, when applicable, returns the location of the path at a random…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandros Beskos , Gareth O. Roberts

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

Multiple scattering of polarised electromagnetic waves in diffusive media is investigated by means of radiative transfer theory. The method becomes exact in several situations of interest, such as a thick-slab experiment (slab thickness L…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Amic , J. M. Luck , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Diffusive representations of fractional derivatives have proven to be useful tools in the construction of fast and memory efficient numerical methods for solving fractional differential equations. A common challenge in many of the known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Kai Diethelm

An approximation is elaborated for the paraxial propagation of diffracted beams, with both one- and two-dimensional cross sections, which are released from apertures with sharp boundaries. The approximation applies to any beam under the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Eitam Luz , Er'el Granot , Boris A. Malomed

We consider the dividend maximization problem including a ruin penalty in a diffusion environment. The additional penalty term is motivated by a constraint on dividend strategies. Intentionally, we use different discount rates for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Josef Anton Strini , Stefan Thonhauser

For a class of stochastic differential equations with reflection for which a certain ${\mathbb{L}}^p$ continuity condition holds with $p>1$, it is shown that any weak solution that is a strong Markov process can be decomposed into the sum…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Weining Kang , Kavita Ramanan

In this article, we consider non-smooth time-dependent domains and single-valued, smoothly varying directions of reflection at the boundary. In this setting, we first prove existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Niklas L. P. Lundström , Thomas Önskog

Penalized spline regression is a popular method for scatterplot smoothing, but there has long been a debate on how to construct confidence intervals for penalized spline fits. Due to the penalty, the fitted smooth curve is a biased estimate…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-06 Ning Dai

In this paper, we develop a self-adaptive ADMM that updates the penalty parameter adaptively. When one part of the objective function is strongly convex i.e., the problem is semi-strongly convex, our algorithm can update the penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

We prove the convergence of a particle method for the approximation of diffusive gradient flows in one dimension. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles and preserves the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 J. A. Carrillo , F. S. Patacchini , P. Sternberg , G. Wolansky

In this article, we consider diffusion approximations for a general class of stochastic recursions. Such recursions arise as models for population growth, genetics, financial securities, multiplicative time series, numerical schemes and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-13 David Kelly

Stochastic diffusion equations are crucial for modeling a range of physical phenomena influenced by uncertainties. We introduce the generalized finite difference method for solving these equations. Then, we examine its consistency,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad

A finite element approach to the elastic flow of a curve coupled with a diffusion equation on the curve is analysed. Considering the graph case, the problem is weakly formulated and approximated with continuous linear finite elements, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

In this paper, we study the discrete-time approximation of multidimensional reflected BSDEs of the type of those presented by Hu and Tang [Probab. Theory Related Fields 147 (2010) 89-121] and generalized by Hamad\`ene and Zhang [Stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Jean-Francois Chassagneux , Romuald Elie , Idris Kharroubi

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. We propose Prox-PEP, a proximal method equipped with quadratic subproblems. To handle nonlinear equality constraints, we employ an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Lixin Tang , Xingyu Wang , Liwei Zhang

We address an original approach for the convergence analysis of a finite-volume scheme for the approximation of a stochastic diffusion-convection equation with multiplicative noise in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $d=2$ or $3$)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Caroline Bauzet , Kerstin Schmitz , Aleksandra Zimmermann