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We discovered a class of self-similar solutions in nonlinear models describing the formation of morphogen gradients, the concentration fields of molecules acting as spatial regulators of cell differention in developing tissues. These models…

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Packing spheres efficiently in large dimension $d$ is a particularly difficult optimization problem. In this paper we add an isotropic interaction potential to the pure hard-core repulsion, and show that one can tune it in order to maximize…

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Various best-choice problems related to the planar homogeneous Poisson process in finite or semi-infinite rectangle are studied. The analysis is largely based on properties of the one-dimensional box-area process associated with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Gnedin

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compliance with user requirements, two commonly used methods are:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shervin Khalafi , Ignacio Hounie , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

The dynamics of ecological as well as chemical systems may depend on heterogeneous configurations. Heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion systems often increase modelling and simulating difficulties when non-linear effects are present. One…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-27 Orlando Silva

This paper investigates a pattern formation control problem for a multi-agent system modeled with given interaction topology, in which $m$ of the $n$ agents are chosen as leaders and consequently a control signal is added to each of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Tianhao Li , Yibei Li , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu

We prove a Large Deviations Principle (LDP) for systems of diffusions (particles) interacting through their ranks, when the number of particles tends to infinity. We show that the limiting particle density is given by the unique solution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Amir Dembo , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov , S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan , Ofer Zeitouni

The creativity of diffusion models refers to their ability to generate highly realistic images that are different from their training data. Creativity is somewhat surprising since it is known that if the denoiser used in the diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Itamar Levine , Yair Weiss

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

By discretising space into compartments and letting system dynamics be governed by the reaction-diffusion master equation, it is possible to derive and simulate a stochastic model of reaction and diffusion on an arbitrary domain. However,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Bartosz J. Bartmanski , Ruth E. Baker

In this paper we consider mathematical modeling of the dynamics of self-organized patterning of spatially confined human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) treated with BMP4 (gastruloids) described in recent experimental works. In the first part…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Prajakta Bedekar , Ilya Timofeyev , Aryeh Warmflash , Misha Perepelitsa

Modelling diffusion processes in heterogeneous media requires addressing inherent discontinuities across interfaces, where specific conditions are to be met. These challenges fall under the purview of Mathematical Analysis as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Vincenzo Bianca , Edgard A. Pimentel , José Miguel Urbano

For a model convection-diffusion problem, we address the presence of oscillatory discrete solutions, and study difficulties in recovering standard approximation results for its solution. We justify the presence of non-physical oscillations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Constantin Bacuta

We study a continuum model of dislocation transport in order to investigate the formation of heterogeneous dislocation patterns. We propose a physical mechanism which relates the formation of heterogeneous patterns to the dynamics of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Ronghai Wu , Daniel Tüzes , Péter Dusán Ispánovity , István Groma , Michael Zaiser

We consider the approximation in the reaction-diffusion norm with continuous finite elements and prove that the best error is equivalent to a sum of the local best errors on pairs of elements. The equivalence constants do not depend on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Francesca Tantardini , Andreas Veeser , R"udiger Verf"urth

Point-like topological defects are singular configurations that occur in a variety of in and out of equilibrium systems with two-dimensional orientational order. As they are associated with a nonzero circuitation condition, the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-13 Jacopo Romano , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

Morphogenesis is central to biology but remains largely unexplored in chemistry. Reaction-diffusion (RD) mechanisms are, however, essential to understand how shape emerges in the living world. While numerical methods confirm the incredible…

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The well-posedness and regularity properties of diffusion-aggregation equations, emerging from interacting particle systems, are established on the whole space for bounded interaction force kernels by utilizing a compactness convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Li Chen , Paul Nikolaev , David J. Prömel

We address the following problem: given two smooth densities on a manifold, find an optimal diffeomorphism that transforms one density into the other. Our framework builds on connections between the Fisher-Rao information metric on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin