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We present a novel multiscale framework for analyzing sequences of probability measures in Wasserstein spaces over Euclidean domains. Exploiting the intrinsic geometry of optimal transport, we construct a multiscale transform applicable to…

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We prove a refined contraction inequality for diffusion semigroups with respect to the Wasserstein distance on a compact Riemannian manifold taking account of the dimension. The result generalizes in a Riemannian context, the dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Ivan Gentil

We consider the gradient flow structure of the porous medium equations with non-negative constant Dirichlet boundary conditions. We construct weak solutions to the equations via the minimizing movement scheme by considering an entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Dongkwang Kim , Dowan Koo , Geuntaek Seo

In this paper we introduce a Wasserstein-type distance on the set of Gaussian mixture models. This distance is defined by restricting the set of possible coupling measures in the optimal transport problem to Gaussian mixture models. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Julie Delon , Agnes Desolneux

We prove the global-in-time existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a class of fourth order partial differential equations on a convex bounded domain in arbitrary spatial dimensions. Our proof relies on the formal gradient flow structure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Daniel Loibl , Daniel Matthes , Jonathan Zinsl

This article is concerned with the existence and the long time behavior of weak solutions to certain coupled systems of fourth-order degenerate parabolic equations of gradient flow type. The underlying metric is a Wasserstein-like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Daniel Matthes , Jonathan Zinsl

Droplet coalescence is essential in a host of biological and industrial processes, involving complex systems as diverse as cellular aggregates, colloidal suspensions, and polymeric liquids. Classical solutions for the time evolution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-04 Haicen Yue , Justin C. Burton , Daniel M. Sussman

Learning conditional densities and identifying factors that influence the entire distribution are vital tasks in data-driven applications. Conventional approaches work mostly with summary statistics, and are hence inadequate for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-13 Chengliang Tang , Nathan Lenssen , Ying Wei , Tian Zheng

This study deals with continuous limits of interacting one-dimensional diffusive systems, arising from stochastic distortions of discrete curves with various kinds of coding representations. These systems are essentially of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

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

We consider a family of fractional porous media equations, recently studied by Caffarelli and V\'azquez. We show the construction of a weak solution as Wasserstein gradient flow of a square fractional Sobolev norm. Energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Stefano Lisini , Edoardo Mainini , Antonio Segatti

We present a theoretical derivation of a rheology for dense granular flow, based on the process of inelastic collapse of neighboring particles. This collapse creates regions of correlated motion, which control the viscous behavior of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas C. Halsey , Deniz Ertas

Divergence functions are measures of distance or dissimilarity between probability distributions that serve various purposes in statistics and applications. We propose decompositions of Wasserstein and Cram\'er distances$-$which compare two…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Johannes Resin , Daniel Wolffram , Johannes Bracher , Timo Dimitriadis

Explicit calculations in dimension one show for Schur stable autoregressive processes with standard Gaussian noise that the ergodic convergence in the Wasserstein-$2$ distance is essentially given by the sum of the mean, which decays…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Gerardo Barrera , Paulo Henrique da Costa , Michael A. Högele

Quantum Wasserstein divergences are modified versions of quantum Wasserstein distances defined by channels, and they are conjectured to be genuine metrics on quantum state spaces by De Palma and Trevisan. We prove triangle inequality for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Gergely Bunth , József Pitrik , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

The analysis of fluctuation-dissipation relations developed in Giona et al. (2024) for particle hydromechanics is extended to stochastic forcings alternative to Wiener processes, with the aim of addressing the occurrence of Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Chiara Pezzotti , Massimiliano Giona , Giuseppe Procopio

We study the convergence to equilibrium of the Dyson-Jacobi process, a system of n interacting particles on the segment [0, 1] arising from Random Matrix Theory. We establish the occurence of a cutoff phenomenon for the intrinsic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Samuel Chan-Ashing

We study the Wasserstein metric to measure distances between molecules represented by the atom index dependent adjacency "Coulomb" matrix, used in kernel ridge regression based supervised learning. Resulting quantum machine learning models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Onur Çaylak , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Björn Baumeier

We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Yijie Jin , Shu Liu , Hao Wu , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

We present new nonlinear differential equations for spacetime correlation functions of Fermi gas in one spatial dimension. The correlation functions we consider describe non-stationary processes out of equilibrium. The equations we obtain…

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