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We study the quantitative convergence of drift-diffusion PDEs that arise as Wasserstein gradient flows of linearly convex functions over the space of probability measures on ${\mathbb R}^d$. In this setting, the objective is in general not…

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When dealing with highly accurate modeling of time and frequency transfers into arbitrarily moving dielectrics medium, it may be convenient to work with Gordon's optical spacetime metric rather than the usual physical spacetime metric.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-25 Adrien Bourgoin

This paper is devoted to the investigation of gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces (for example, irreversible Finsler manifolds and Minkowski normed spaces) by means of discrete approximation. We study basic properties of curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Shin-ichi Ohta , Wei Zhao

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

Motivated by a constrained minimization problem, it is studied the gradient flows with respect to Hessian Riemannian metrics induced by convex functions of Legendre type. The first result characterizes Hessian Riemannian structures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Felipe Alvarez , Jérôme Bolte , Olivier Brahic

We develop the theory of discrete-time gradient flows for convex functions on Alexandrov spaces with arbitrary upper or lower curvature bounds. We employ different resolvent maps in the upper and lower curvature bound cases to construct…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Shin-ichi Ohta , Miklós Pálfia

This paper develops the so-called Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) variational approach for the analysis of gradient flows in metric spaces. This focuses on the minimization of the parameter-dependent global-in-time functional of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Riccarda Rossi , Giuseppe Savaré , Antonio Segatti , Ulisse Stefanelli

We propose a variational form of the BDF2 method as an alternative to the commonly used minimizing movement scheme for the time-discrete approximation of gradient flows in abstract metric spaces. Assuming uniform semi-convexity --- but no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Daniel Matthes , Simon Plazotta

We consider a class of time-homogeneous diffusion processes on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with common invariant measure but varying volatility matrices. In Euclidean space, we show via stochastic control of the diffusion coefficient that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Bertram Tschiderer

Uncertainty propagation and filtering can be interpreted as gradient flows with respect to suitable metrics in the infinite dimensional manifold of probability density functions. Such a viewpoint has been put forth in recent literature, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Abhishek Halder , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We introduce the notions of `super-Ricci flows' and `Ricci flows' for time-dependent families of metric measure spaces $(X,d_t,m_t)_{t\in I}$. The former property is proven to be stable under suitable space-time versions of mGH-convergence.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We study the momentum-based minimization of a diffuse perimeter functional on Euclidean spaces and on graphs with applications to semi-supervised classification tasks in machine learning. While the gradient flow in the task at hand is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Oluwatosin Akande , Patrick Dondl , Kanan Gupta , Akwum Onwunta , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We develop a statistical framework for conducting inference on collections of time-varying covariance operators (covariance flows) over a general, possibly infinite dimensional, Hilbert space. We model the intrinsically non-linear structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-25 Leonardo V. Santoro , Victor M. Panaretos

Given a state space, Assignment of Observables involves Taking Function spaces Thereover. At the classical level, the state space in question is phase space or configuration space. This assignment picks up nontrivialities when whichever…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-14 Edward Anderson

We explicitly construct parameter transformations between gradient flows in metric spaces, called curves of maximal slope, having different exponents when the associated function satisfies a suitable convexity condition. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Sho Shimoyama

The metric and potential associated with the gradient property of renormalisation group flow in multiscalar models in $d=4-\varepsilon$ dimensions are studied. The metric is identified with the Zamolodchikov metric of nearly marginal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 William H. Pannell , Andreas Stergiou

We consider additive functionals as a time and space-dependent function of a diffusion corresponding to nonhomogeneous uniformly elliptic divergence form operator. We show that if the function belongs to natural domain of strong solutions…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Tomasz Klimsiak

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a properly normalized time-changed multidimensional Wiener process; the time change is given by an additive functional of the Wiener process itself. At the level of generators, the time change means that…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Yuliia Mishura , René L. Schilling

For Euclidean quantum field theories, Holland and Hollands have shown operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients satisfy "flow equations": For interaction parameter $\lambda$, the partial derivative of any OPE coefficient with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Mark G. Klehfoth , Robert M. Wald