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We consider the small mass asymptotics (Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation) for the Langevin equation with a variable friction coefficient. The limit of the solution in the classical sense does not exist in this case. We study a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-31 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

We consider the small mass asymptotic (Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation) for the Langevin equation with a variable friction coefficient. The friction coefficient is assumed to be vanishing within certain region. We introduce a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu , Alexander Wentzell

A system of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena, which has arbitrary friction depending on both state and distribution is investigated. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is seen to describe dynamics in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Xueru Liu , Qianqian Jiang , Wei Wang

This note provides a simple derivation of the overdamped approximation for kinetic (or underdamped) equilibrium Langevin dynamics, in cases where certain coefficients depend on the position variable. The equivalent small-mass limit of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Noé Blassel

A class of Langevin stochastic differential equations is shown to converge in the small-mass limit under very weak assumptions on the coefficients defining the equation. The convergence result is applied to physically realizable examples…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-29 David P. Herzog , Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe

The small mass limit is derived for a McKean-Vlasov equation subject to environmental noise with state-dependent friction. By applying the averaging approach to a non-autonomous stochastic slow-fast system with the microscopic and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Chungang Shi , Yan Lv , Wei Wang

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Scott Hottovy , Austin McDaniel , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

The small mass limit of the Langevin equation perturbed by $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy noise is considered by rewriting it in the form of slow-fast system, and spliting the fast component into three parts, where $\alpha\in(1,2)$. By exploring…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Qingming Zhao , Wei Wang

We consider small mass asymptotics of the motion of a charged particle in a noisy force field combined with a variable magnetic field. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation does not hold in this case. We show that after a regularization of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Jong Jun Lee

We study the validity of the so-called Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for a two dimensional system of stochastic partial differential equations, subject to a constant magnetic field. As the small mass limit does not yield to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Sandra Cerrai , Michael Salins

We discuss here the validity of the small mass limit (the so-called Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation) on a fixed time interval for a class of semi-linear stochastic wave equations, both in the case of the presence of a constant friction…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Sandra Cerrai , Mark Freidlin , Michael Salins

The dynamical evolution of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous medium with spatially varying friction and temperature field is important to understand conceptually. It requires to address the basic problem of relative stability of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

We consider systems of damped wave equations with a state-dependent damping coefficient and perturbed by a Gaussian multiplicative noise. Initially, we investigate their well-posedness, under quite general conditions on the friction.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Sandra Cerrai , Arnaud Debussche

We study the validity of a Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for a class of wave equations in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to a state-dependent damping and perturbed by a multiplicative noise. We prove that in the small mass…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Sandra Cerrai , Guangyu Xi

We study the asymptotics for the Ablowitz-Ladik equation. By taking appropriate continuum limits, it can be shown that the behavior of the equation near degenerate frequencies is well approximated by a complex modified Korteweg-de Vries…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Gavin Stewart

An approximation is derived for a Langevin equation with distribution-dependent potential and state-dependent, randomly fast oscillation. By some estimates and a diffusion approximation the limiting equation is shown to be…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Chungang Shi , Wei Wang

According to the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation, the solution of the equation ${\mu}\ddot{q}^{\mu}_t=b(q^{\mu}_t)-\dot{q}^{\mu}_t+{\Sigma}(q^{\mu}_t)\dot{W}_t, q^{\mu}_0=q, \dot{q}^{\mu}_0=p$ converges to the solution of the equation…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

We consider the dynamics of systems with arbitrary friction and diffusion. These include, as a special case, systems for which friction and diffusion are connected by Einstein fluctuation-dissipation relation, e.g. Brownian motion. We study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We get fractional symmetric Fokker - Planck and Einstein - Smoluchowski kinetic equations, which describe evolution of the systems influenced by stochastic forces distributed with stable probability laws. These equations generalize known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Chechkin , V. Yu. Gonchar

We study the validity of a large deviation principle for a class of stochastic nonlinear damped wave equations, of Klein-Gordon type, in the joint small mass and small noise limit. The friction term is assumed to be state dependent.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie
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