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The goal of this work is to find the sharp rate of convergence to equilibrium under the quadratic Fisher information functional for solutions to Fokker-Planck equations governed by a constant drift term and a constant, yet possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Tobias Wöhrer

Using a representation of the score function by means of the divergence operator we exhibit a sufficient condition, in terms of the negative moments of the norm of the Malliavin derivative, under which convergence in Fisher information to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Ivan Nourdin , David Nualart

We address the fundamental limits of learning unknown parameters of any stochastic process from time-series data, and discover exact closed-form expressions for how optimal inference scales with observation length. Given a parametrized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Paul M. Riechers

We introduce the Fisher information in the basis of decay modes of Markovian dynamics, arguing that it encodes important information about the behavior of nonequilibrium systems. In particular we generalize an orthonormality relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-16 Matteo Polettini

We consider kinetic models for Fermi-Dirac-like particles obeying the exclusion principle. A generalized notion of Fisher information, tailored to kinetic equations of Fermi-Dirac-Fokker-Planck type, is introduced via the associated entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yuzhe Zhu

In this paper we introduce a new generalisation of the relative Fisher Information for Markov jump processes on a finite or countable state space, and prove an inequality which connects this object with the relative entropy and a large…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Bastian Hilder , Mark A. Peletier , Upanshu Sharma , Oliver Tse

We study a fuzzy variant of the inhomogeneous Landau equation and establish global-in-time existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions for moderately soft potentials. The spatial delocalization introduced in the collision operator not only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Maria Pia Gualdani , Nestor Guillen , Nataša Pavlović , Maja Tasković , Nicola Zamponi

Relative to the Gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$, entropy and Fisher information are famously related via Gross' logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI). These same functionals also separately satisfy convolution inequalities, as proved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Thomas A. Courtade

We analyzed the noncommutativity effects on the Fisher information (F_(r,p)) and Shannon entropies (S_(r,p)) of a harmonic oscillator immersed in a time-varying electric field in two and three dimensions. We find the exact solutions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. P. G. Nascimento , V. Aguiar , I. Guedes

In quantum information theory, Fisher Information is a natural metric on the space of perturbations to a density matrix, defined by calculating the relative entropy with the unperturbed state at quadratic order in perturbations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Nima Lashkari , Mark Van Raamsdonk

The paper concerns $L^1$- convergence to equilibrium for weak solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann Equation for soft potentials $(-4\le \gm<0$), with and without angular cutoff. We prove the time-averaged $L^1$-convergence to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Xuguang Lu

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

We establish several convexity properties for the entropy and Fisher information of mixtures of centered Gaussian distributions. First, we prove that if $X_1, X_2$ are independent scalar Gaussian mixtures, then the entropy of $\sqrt{t}X_1 +…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Alexandros Eskenazis , Lampros Gavalakis

We show the convergence of the zero relaxation limit in systems of $2 \times 2$ hyperbolic conservation laws with stochastic initial data. Precisely, solutions converge to a solution of the local equilibrium approximation as the relaxation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-01 James M. Scott , M. Paul Laiu , Cory D. Hauck

We extend Voiculescu's microstates-free definitions of free Fisher information and free entropy to the non-tracial framework. We explain the connection between these quantities and free entropy with respect to certain completely positive…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dimitri Shlyakhtenko

We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Anton Arnold , Jan Erb

We show that an information theoretic distance measured by the relative Fisher information between canonical equilibrium phase densities corresponding to forward and backward processes is intimately related to the gradient of the dissipated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-12 Takuya Yamano

We consider the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with hard potentials in the non-perturbative setting. For initial data with polynomial decay in the velocity variable, we establish the local-in-time existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Hao-Guang Li , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

We derive the quantum Fisher information for entropy estimation in a Gibbs state and show that it equals the inverse of the heat capacity, which is dual to the temperature Fisher information given by the heat capacity divided by the square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Francis J. Headley

A simple proof is given for the monotonicity of entropy and Fisher information associated to sums of i.i.d. random variables. The proof relies on a characterization of maximal correlation for partial sums due to Dembo, Kagan and Shepp.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Thomas A. Courtade