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We derive a strengthened monotonicity inequality for quantum relative entropy by employing properties of $\alpha$-R\'{e}nyi relative entropy. We develop a unifying treatment towards the improvement of some quantum entropy inequalities. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Lin Zhang

We study the problem of convergence of the normalized Ricci flow evolving on a compact manifold $\Omega$ without boundary. In \cite{KS10, KS15} we derived, via PDE techniques, global-in-time existence of the classical solution and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Nikos I. Kavallaris , Takashi Suzuki

We present a systematic approach for constructing steady state density operators of Markovian dissipative evolution for open quantum chain models with integrable bulk interaction and boundary incoherent driving. The construction is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Enej Ilievski , Bojan Žunkovič

In this paper we establish a rigorous gradient flow structure for one-dimensional Kimura equations with respect to some Wasserstein-Shahshahani optimal transport geometry. This is achieved by first conditioning the underlying stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon

The defining equation $(\ast):\ \dot \omega\_t=-F'(\omega\_t),$ of a gradient flow is kinetic in essence. This article explores some dynamical (rather than kinetic) features of gradient flows (i) by embedding equation $(\ast)$ into the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Ivan Gentil , Christian Léonard , Luigia Ripani

The problem of existence and uniqueness of absolutely continuous invariant measures for a class of piecewise deterministic Markov processes is investigated using the theory of substochastic semigroups obtained through the Kato--Voigt…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Weronika Biedrzycka , Marta Tyran-Kaminska

We study the quantitative convergence of Wasserstein gradient flows of Kernel Mean Discrepancy (KMD) (also known as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD)) functionals. Our setting covers in particular the training dynamics of shallow neural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Roberto Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real

We prove the equivalence between the notion of Wasserstein gradient flow for a one-dimensional nonlocal transport PDE with attractive/repulsive Newtonian potential on one side, and the notion of entropy solution of a Burgers-type scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Giovanni A. Bonaschi , José A. Carrillo , Marco Di Francesco , Mark A. Peletier

Via a Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula from [KPP23], we derive uniform gradient estimates for transition semigroups associated with stochastic differential equations driven by a large class of cylindrical L\'{e}vy processes which includes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thanh Dang , Lingjiong Zhu

We show the equivalences of several notions of entropy, like a version of the topological entropy of the geodesic flow and the Minkowski dimension of the boundary, in metric spaces with convex geodesic bicombings satisfying a uniform…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Nicola Cavallucci

We study the Wasserstein gradient flow of the Sinkhorn divergence when both the source and the target are Gaussian distributions. We prove the existence of a flow that stays in the class of Gaussian distributions, and is unique in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Mathis Hardion , Théo Lacombe

We present a simple approach to study the one-dimensional pressureless Euler system via adhesion dynamics in the Wasserstein space of probability measures with finite quadratic moments. Starting from a discrete system of a finite number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Luca Natile , Giuseppe Savaré

In this paper we study the geodesic flow for a particular class of Riemannian non-compact manifolds with variable pinched negative sectional curvature. For a sequence of invariant measures we are able to prove results relating the loss of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Godofredo Iommi , Felipe Riquelme , Anibal Velozo

In the type II von Neumann algebras that appear in semiclassical gravity, all states have infinite entropy, but entropy differences are uniquely defined. Akers and I have shown that the entropy difference of microcanonical states has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Jonathan Sorce

We reveal a precise mathematical framework about a new family of generative models which we call Gradient Flow Drifting. With this framework, we prove an equivalence between the recently proposed Drifting Model and the Wasserstein gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Cao , Zixuan Wei , Yuxin Liu

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to a thorough analysis of the class of gradient flows in a metric space $(X,\mathsf{d})$ that can be characterized by Evolution Variational Inequalities. We present new results concerning the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Matteo Muratori , Giuseppe Savaré

Calder\'on-Zygmund theory has been traditionally developed on metric measure spaces satisfying additional regularity properties. In the lack of good metrics, we introduce a new approach for general measure spaces which admit a Markov…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Marius Junge , Tao Mei , Javier Parcet , Runlian Xia

Assuming the dynamical convergence $P_t^\varepsilon\to\bar P_t$ for singular limits of time-homogeneous Markov diffusion semigroups, we develop a semigroup-level framework that upgrades this convergence into four levels of thermodynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Xinyu Zhang , Liu Hong

In the absence of a reference frame for transformations associated with a group G, any quantum state that is non-invariant under the action of G may serve as a token of the missing reference frame. We here introduce a novel measure of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Gilad Gour , Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

We show that all Lindblad operators (i.e. generators of quantum semigroups) on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space satisfying the detailed balance condition with respect to the thermal equilibrium state can be written as a gradient system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Markus Mittnenzweig , Alexander Mielke