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In this work, we show that a family of non-linear mean-field equations on discrete spaces can be viewed as a gradient flow of a natural free energy functional with respect to a certain metric structure we make explicit. We also prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Matthias Erbar , Max Fathi , Vaios Laschos , André Schlichting

This paper studies large-scale optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds whose objective function is a finite sum of negative log-probability losses. Such problems arise in various machine learning and signal processing applications. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jiang Hu , Ruicheng Ao , Anthony Man-Cho So , Minghan Yang , Zaiwen Wen

The 2D Ricci flow equation in the conformal gauge is studied using the linearization approach. Using a non-linear substitution of logarithmic type, the emergent quadratic equation is split in various ways. New special solutions involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-26 Stefan Adrian Carstea , Mihai Visinescu

We present variational approximations of boundary value problems for curvature flow (curve shortening flow) and elastic flow (curve straightening flow) in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are conformally flat. For the evolving open…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We propose a general method to identify nonlinear Fokker--Planck--Kolmogorov equations (FPK equations) as gradient flows on the space of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a natural differential geometry. Our notion of gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Marco Rehmeier , Michael Röckner

We present a scaling technique which transforms the evolution problem for a nonlinear wave equation with small initial data to a linear wave equation with a distributional source. The exact solution of the latter uniformly approximates the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Nikodem Szpak

The problem of finding roots or solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation may be formulated as the problem of minimizing a sum of squared residuals. One then defines an evolution equation so that in the asymptotic limit a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Parimah Kazemi , Robert Renka

A finite element scheme for an entirely fractional Allen-Cahn equation with non-smooth initial data is introduced and analyzed. In the proposed nonlocal model, the Caputo fractional in-time derivative and the fractional Laplacian replace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Gabriel Acosta , Francisco Bersetche

We study semi-linear evolutionary problems where the linear part is the generator of a positive $C_0$-semigroup. The non-linear part is assumed to be quasi-increasing. Given an initial value in between a sub- and a super-solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Wolfgang Arendt , Daniel Daners

Some twenty years ago we introduced a nonstandard matrix Riccati equation to solve the partial stochastic realization problem. In this paper we provide a new derivation of this equation in the context of system identification. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Anders Lindquist

This paper is concerned with numerical solutions of time-fractional nonlinear parabolic problems by a class of $L1$-Galerkin finite element methods. The analysis of $L1$ methods for time-fractional nonlinear problems is limited mainly due…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Dongfang Li , Hong-lin Liao , Weiwei Sun , Jilu Wang , Jiwei Zhang

In this article we derive gradient estimation for positive solution of the equation \begin{equation*} (\partial_t-\Delta_f)u = A(u)p(x,t) + B(u)q(x,t) + \mathcal{G}(u) \end{equation*} on a weighted Riemannian manifold evolving along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yanlin Li , Abimbola Abolarinwa , Suraj Ghosh , Shyamal Kumar Hui

The algebraic-geometric approach is extended to study solutions of N-component systems associated with the energy dependent Schrodinger operators having potentials with poles in the spectral parameter, in connection with Hamiltonian flows…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 M. S. Alber , Y. N. Fedorov

For some class of geometric flows, we obtain the (logarithmic) Sobolev inequalities and their equivalence up to different factors directly and also obtain the long time non-collapsing and non-inflated properties, which generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Shouwen Fang , Tao Zheng

We provide the set of equations for non-relativistic fluid dynamics on arbitrary, possibly time-dependent spaces, in general coordinates. These equations are fully covariant under either local Galilean or local Carrollian transformations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Luca Ciambelli , Charles Marteau , Anastasios C. Petkou , P. Marios Petropoulos , Konstantinos Siampos

The purpose of this note is to prove the existence of global weak solutions to the flow associated to integro-differential harmonic maps into spheres and Riemannian homogeneous manifolds.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Armin Schikorra , Yannick Sire , Changyou Wang

In this note, we discuss the mean curvature flow of graphs of maps between Riemannian manifolds. Special emphasis will be placed on estimates of the flow as a non-linear parabolic system of differential equations. Several global existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-05 Mu-Tao Wang

The expressions of solutions for general $n\times m$ matrix-valued inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equations are derived. This generalizes a result of Jaschke (2003) for scalar inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-11 Jinqiao Duan , Jia-an Yan

It is often of interest to infer lower-dimensional structure underlying complex data. As a flexible class of non-linear structures, it is common to focus on Riemannian manifolds. Most existing manifold learning algorithms replace the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-27 David B Dunson , Nan Wu

In this study, the Riccati equation is resolved using the generalized recursive integrating factor method. By applying a non-linear transformation to the dependent variable $y(x)$ of the Riccati equation, a second-order linear differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Everardo Rivera-Oliva