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Motivated by a recent method for approximate solution of Fredholm equations of the first kind, we develop a corresponding method for a class of Fredholm equations of the \emph{second kind}. In particular, we consider the class of equations…

The thin-film and quantum drift diffusion equations belong to a fourth-order family of evolution equations proposed in ref. 16 to be analogous to the (second-order) porous medium family. They are $2$-Wasserstein gradient ($W_2$) flows of…

We prove that the heat equation on $\mathbb{R}^d$ is well-posed in certain spaces of functions allowing spatial asymptotic expansions as $|x|\to\infty$ of any a priori given order. In fact, we show that the Laplacian on such function spaces…

We investigate fluctuations in the momentum flux across a surface perpendicular to the velocity gradient in a stationary shear flow maintained by either thermostated deterministic or by stochastic boundary conditions. In the deterministic…

We prove that the isotropic Landau equation equipped with the Coulomb potential introduced by Krieger-Strain and Gualdani-Guillen can be identified with the gradient flow of the entropy in the probability space with respect to a Riemannian…

In this paper we introduce a new logarithmic entropy functional for the linear heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds and prove that it is monotone decreasing on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Our…

In the first part of this paper, we prove local interior and boundary gradient estimates for p-harmonic functions on general Riemannian manifolds. With these estimates, following the strategy in recent work of R. Moser, we prove an…

This paper provides results on Wasserstein gradient flows between measures on the real line. Utilizing the isometric embedding of the Wasserstein space $\mathcal P_2(\mathbb R)$ into the Hilbert space $L_2((0,1))$, Wasserstein gradient…

We prove several functional and geometric inequalities only assuming the linearity and a quantitative $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-to-Lipschitz smoothing of the heat semigroup in metric-measure spaces. Our results comprise a Buser inequality, a…

Motivated by recent evidence indicating that Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) might be nonperturbatively renormalizable, the exact renormalization group equation of QEG is evaluated in a truncation of theory space which generalizes the…

The classical thermostatics of equilibrium processes is shown to possess a quantum-mechanical dual theory with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space of quantum states. Specifically, the kernel of a certain Hamiltonian operator becomes the…

It is shown that a hot relativistic fluid could be viewed as a collection of self-interacting quantum objects. They obey a nonlinear equation which is a modification of the quantum equation obeyed by elementary constituents of the fluid. A…

We prove a conjecture of Bernstein that the superconvexity of the heat kernel on hyperbolic space holds in all dimensions and, hence, there is an analog of Huisken's monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow in hyperbolic space of all…

Carnot's four-part ideal-gas cycle includes both isothermal and adiabatic expansions and compressions. Analyzing this cycle provides the fundamental basis for statistical thermodynamics. We explore the cycle here from a pedagogical view in…

This article presents a comprehensive study of \textit{Kirchhoff-type Critical Elliptic Equations} involving $p$-sub-Laplacian Operators on the \textit{Heisenberg Group} $\mathcal{H}_{n}$. It delves into the mathematical framework of…

In this paper, we establish Li-Yau-type and Hamilton-type estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation associated with the generalized Ricci flow, under a less stringent curvature condition. Compared with [25] and [35], these…

For the Neumann heat flow on nonconvex Riemannian domains $D\subset M$, we provide sharp gradient estimates and transport estimates with a novel $\sqrt t$-dependence, for instance, $$\text{Lip}( P^D_tf)\le e^{2S \,…

We establish a point-wise gradient estimate for $all$ positive solutions of the conjugate heat equation. This contrasts to Perelman's point-wise gradient estimate which works mainly for the fundamental solution rather than all solutions.…

We introduce a sub-Riemannian analogue of the Bence-Merriman-Osher diffusion driven algorithm and show that it leads to weak solutions of the horizontal mean curvature flow of graphs over sub-Riemannian Carnot groups. The proof follows the…

A striking feature of standard quantum mechanics is its analogy with classical fluid dynamics. In particular it is well known the Schr\"{o}dinger equation can be viewed as describing a classical compressible and non-viscous fluid, described…