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We study the Cauchy problem on the real line for the nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation in one spatial dimension, \[ u_t = D u_{xx} + u(1-\phi*u), \] where $\phi*u$ is a spatial convolution with the top hat kernel, $\phi(y) \equiv…

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Based on the ideas of arXiv:1710.06612, we consider the problem of minimization of the Holder-continuous non-smooth functional $f$ with non-positive convex (generally, non-smooth) Lipschitz-continuous functional constraint. We propose some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexey Stepanov , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Titov

The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$ determines a flow of conservative solutions taking values in the space $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. However, this flow is not continuous w.r.t. the natural $H^1$ distance. Aim of this paper is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Alberto Bressan , Geng Chen

We consider the Dirichlet problem for second-order linear elliptic equations in divergence form \begin{equation*} -\mathrm{div }(A\nabla u)+\mathbf{b} \cdot \nabla u+\lambda u=f+\mathrm{div } \mathbf{F}\quad \text{in }…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Hyunwoo Kwon

We consider gradient flow/gradient descent and heavy ball/accelerated gradient descent optimization for convex objective functions. In the gradient flow case, we prove the following: 1. If $f$ does not have a minimizer, the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Jonathan W. Siegel , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We prove maximal Schauder regularity for solutions to elliptic systems and Cauchy problems, in the space $C_b(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{R}^m)$ of bounded and continuous functions, associated to a class of nonautonomous weakly coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Davide Addona , Luca Lorenzi

We examine a steepest energy descent flow with obstacle constraint in higher order energy frameworks where the maximum principle is not available. We construct the flow under general assumptions using De Giorgi's minimizing movement scheme.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Marius Müller

In the first part of this paper we prove that the flow associated to the Burgers equation with a non local term of the form $\partial_x |D|^{\alpha-1} u$ fails to be uniformly continuous from bounded sets of $H^s({\mathbb D})$ to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Ayman Rimah Said

We consider the Cauchy problem for the focusing Hartree equation $iu_{t}+\Delta u+(|\cdot|^{-3}\ast|u|^{2})u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{5}$ with the initial data in $H^1$, and study the divergent property of infinite-variance and nonradial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-12 Daomin Cao , Qing Guo

We study the regularity of a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is $u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-1/2}u).$ For definiteness, the problem is posed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Luis Caffarelli , Juan Luis Vázquez

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

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In proper, geodesic Gromov hyperbolic spaces, we investigate discrete-time gradient flows via the proximal point algorithm for unbounded Lipschitz convex functions. Assuming that the target convex function has negative asymptotic slope…

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This paper considers the problem of solving systems of quadratic equations, namely, recovering an object of interest $\mathbf{x}^{\natural}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ from $m$ quadratic equations/samples…

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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

In a Hilbert space setting $\mathcal H$, given $\Phi: \mathcal H \to \mathbb R$ a convex continuously differentiable function, and $\alpha$ a positive parameter, we consider the inertial system with Asymptotic Vanishing Damping…

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We examine the continuous-time counterpart of mirror descent, namely mirror flow, on classification problems which are linearly separable. Such problems are minimised `at infinity' and have many possible solutions; we study which solution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-14 Scott Pesme , Radu-Alexandru Dragomir , Nicolas Flammarion

We develop arguments on convexity and minimization of energy functionals on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces to investigate existence of solution to the equation $\displaystyle -\mbox{div} (\phi(|\nabla u|) \nabla u) = f(x,u) + h \mbox{in} \Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-23 J. V. Goncalves , M. L. M. Carvalho

We prove existence, uniqueness and initial time regularity for variational solutions to nonlocal total variation flows associated with image denoising and deblurring. In particular, we prove existence of parabolic minimisers $u$, that is,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Harsh Prasad , Vivek Tewary

We study a Lagrangian numerical scheme for solution of a nonlinear drift diffusion equation of the form $\partial_t u = \partial_x(u \cdot c[\partial_x(h^\prime(u)+v)])$ on an interval. This scheme will consist of a spatio-temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Benjamin Söllner , Oliver Junge