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We suggest that the tools of contraction analysis for deterministic systems can be applied towards studying the convergence behavior of stochastic dynamical systems in the Wasserstein metric. In particular, we consider the case of Ito…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We propose a new approach to measuring the agreement between two oscillatory time series, such as seismic waveforms, and demonstrate that it can be employed effectively in inverse problems. Our approach is based on Optimal Transport theory…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Malcolm Sambridge , Andrew Jackson , Andrew P. Valentine

The Madelung transform is known to relate Schr\"odinger-type equations in quantum mechanics and the Euler equations for barotropic-type fluids. We prove that, more generally, the Madelung transform is a K\"ahler map (i.e. a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

By studying the weak closure of multidimensional off-diagonal self-joinings we provide a criterion for non-isomorphism of a flow with its inverse, hence the non-reversibility of a flow. This is applied to special flows over rigid…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 K. Fraczek , J. Kulaga , M. Lemanczyk

We classify all possible allowed constitutive relations of relativistic fluids in a statistical mechanical limit using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for hydrodynamics. We find that microscopic unitarity enforces genuinely new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Kristan Jensen , Raja Marjieh , Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva , Amos Yarom

Fluid equations are nonlinear, dissipative, and non-Hamiltonian, which makes their relation to Schr\"odinger evolution and quantum algorithms nontrivial. We derive an exact Eulerian Cole-Hopf-type reformulation of isothermal compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 James R. Beattie , Max Sokolova , Khush Negandhi , Bart Ripperda

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certain transportation cost. This problem, which represents a generalisation of optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kirill Tamogashev , Nikolay Malkin

While flow optimization has been extensively studied in the continuum regime, its extension to rarefied gas flows remains less explored. Here, based on the Boltzmann model equation, an adjoint topology optimization method is employed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-17 Ruifeng Yuan , Lei Wu

The adapted Wasserstein distance is a metric for quantifying distributional uncertainty and assessing the sensitivity of stochastic optimization problems on time series data. A computationally efficient alternative to it, is provided by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Beatrice Acciaio , Songyan Hou , Gudmund Pammer

The artificial fluid model known as "Schr\"odinger flow" (SF) can represent rotational flow with dissipative effects, and has attracted attention despite its gap from real-world fluid behavior. To address the structural discrepancy arising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yi-Sian Ciou

T. Borrvall and J. Petersson [Topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 41 (1) (2003) 77--107] developed the first model for topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow. They…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Endre Süli

In this paper, we define, via Fourier transform, an ergodic flow of transformations of a Wiener space which preserves the law of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and which interpolates the iterations of a transformation previously defined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-27 J. Najnudel , D. Stroock , M. Yor

Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We consider the vorticity form of 2D Navier--Stokes equations perturbed by an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck flow of transport type. Contrary to previous works where the random perturbation was interpreted as Stratonovich transport noise, here we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Chang Liu , Dejun Luo

We formulate and study an optimal transportation problem with infinitely many marginals; this is a natural extension of the multi-marginal problem studied by Gangbo and Swiech (1998). We prove results on the existence, uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Brendan Pass

We formulate well-posed continuous-time generative flows for learning distributions that are supported on low-dimensional manifolds through Wasserstein proximal regularizations of $f$-divergences. Wasserstein-1 proximal operators regularize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-17 Hyemin Gu , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

We study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Espen Bernton , Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

This work presents several expected generalization error bounds based on the Wasserstein distance. More specifically, it introduces full-dataset, single-letter, and random-subset bounds, and their analogues in the randomized subsample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-29 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Germán Bassi , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge is a stochastic optimal control problem to steer a given initial state density to another, subject to controlled diffusion and deadline constraints. A popular method to numerically solve the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alexis M. H. Teter , Yongxin Chen , Abhishek Halder

A variational principle is derived for two-dimensional incompressible rotational fluid flow with a free surface in a moving vessel when both the vessel and fluid motion are to be determined. The fluid is represented by a stream function and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 H. Alemi Ardakani , T. J. Bridges , F. Gay-Balmaz , Y. Huang , C. Tronci