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I show how prior work with R. Wald on geodesic motion in general relativity can be generalized to classical field theories of a metric and other tensor fields on four-dimensional spacetime that 1) are second-order and 2) follow from a…

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We propose a theory of non-differentiable solutions which applies to fully nonlinear PDE systems and extends the theory of viscosity solutions of Crandall-Ishii-Lions to the vectorial case. Our key ingredient is the discovery of a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Nikos Katzourakis

We propose a model of optimal parallel transport between vector fields on a connection graph, which consists of a weighted graph along with a map from its edges to an orthogonal group. Inspired by the well-known equivalence of 1-Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sawyer Robertson , Dhruv Kohli , Gal Mishne , Alexander Cloninger

In this paper, a novel high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) spectral volume (SV) method is proposed and studied for nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson (VP) simulations via operator splitting. The proposed algorithm combines both advantages of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Xinyue Zhang , Xiaofeng Cai , Waixiang Cao

This paper is concerned with six variational problems and their mutual connections: The quadratic Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, the Schr\"odinger problem, Brenier's relaxed model for incompressible fluids, the so-called Br\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Aymeric Baradat , Léonard Monsaingeon

We derive the field equations for topologically massive gravity coupled with the most general quadratic curvature terms using the language of exterior differential forms and a first order constrained variational principle. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 T. Dereli , C. Yetismisoglu

We study existence and uniqueness of the solution to the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system evolving in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It is assumed that initially the particles are distributed according to a spatial density with a power-law decay in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Guido Cavallaro , Carlo Marchioro

Asymptotically flat spacetimes with one Killing vector field are considered. The Killing equations are solved asymptotically using polyhomogeneous expansions (i.e. series in powers of 1/r an ln r), and solved order by order. The solution to…

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In this paper, we present a numerical method, based on iterative Bregman projections, to solve the optimal transport problem with Coulomb cost. This is related to the strong interaction limit of Density Functional Theory. The first idea is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Luca Nenna

In this paper, we present a new method for the solution of those linear transport processes that may be described by a Master Equation, such as electron, neutron and photon transport, and more exotic variants thereof. We base our algorithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jelle Ritzerveld , Vincent Icke

This work derives the Navier--Stokes hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined, quasi-two-dimensional, $s$-component mixture of inelastic, smooth, hard spheres. Using the inelastic version of the revised Enskog theory, macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

In this paper, we considered the isentropic Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These systems come from the Boltzmann equations through the Chapman-Enskog expansion to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Shengguo Zhu

We propose a low-rank tensor approach to approximate linear transport and nonlinear Vlasov solutions and their associated flow maps. The approach takes advantage of the fact that the differential operators in the Vlasov equation is tensor…

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We prove quantitative regularity estimates for the solutions to non-linear continuity equations and their discretized numerical approximations on Cartesian grids when advected by a rough force field. This allow us to recover the known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 F. Ben Belgacem , P-E Jabin

This is our first paper on the extension of our recent work on the Lax-Oleinik commutators and its applications to the intrinsic approach of propagation of singularities of the viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Wei Cheng , Jiahui Hong , Tianqi Shi

We present a numerical method to solve the optimal transport problem with a quadratic cost when the source and target measures are periodic probability densities. This method is based on a numerical resolution of the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Louis-Philippe Saumier , Martial Agueh , Boualem Khouider

In this article, we present an Unfitted Space-Time Finite Element method for the scalar transport equation posed on moving domains. We consider the case of the domain boundary being transported by the same velocity field as the scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Erik Burman , Fabian Heimann

We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian Characteristic Mapping (CM) method for solving the three-dimensional (3D) incompressible Euler equations. This method evolves advected quantities by discretizing the flow map associated with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Xi-Yuan Yin , Kai Schneider , Jean-Christophe Nave

We establish improved hypoelliptic estimates on the solutions of kinetic transport equations, using a suitable decomposition of the phase space. Our main result shows that the relative compactness in all variables of a bounded family…

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