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We prove that the linear heat flow in a RCD(K,\infty) metric measure space (X,d,m) satisfies a contraction property with respect to every L^p-Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein distance. In particular, we obtain a precise estimate for the…

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We establish certain Gaussian type upper bound for the heat kernel of the conjugate heat equation associated with 3 dimensional ancient $\kappa$ solutions to the Ricci flow. As an application, using the $W$ entropy associated with the heat…

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We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

We consider discrete porous medium equations of the form \partial_t \rho_t = \Delta \phi(\rho_t), where \Delta is the generator of a reversible continuous time Markov chain on a finite set X, and \phi is an increasing function. We show that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

We investigate the harmonic map heat flow from a compact Riemannian manifold \( M \) into the moduli space \( \mathcal{M}_1 \) of unit-area flat tori, which carries a natural hyperbolic structure as the quotient \( \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Mohammad Javad Habibi Vosta Kolaei

Motivated by recent developments in the fields of large deviations for interacting particle system and mean field control, we establish a comparison principle for the Hamilton--Jacobi equation corresponding to linearly controlled gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Giovanni Conforti , Richard Kraaij , Daniela Tonon

We consider a Fokker-Planck equation which is coupled to an externally given time-dependent constraint on its first moment. This constraint introduces a Lagrange-multiplier which renders the equation nonlocal and nonlinear. In this paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Simon Eberle , Barbara Niethammer , André Schlichting

In this paper we investigate solutions to a linear Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the Wasserstein space of probability vectors on a finite simply connected graph. We prove that there exists a solution under the assumption that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Miho Kasai

Previously, the Einstein equation has been described as an equation of state, general relativity as the equilibrium state of gravity, and $f({\cal R})$ gravity as a non-equilibrium one. We apply Eckart's first order thermodynamics to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Valerio Faraoni , Andrea Giusti

We first prove the $W$-entropy formula and rigidity theorem for the geodesic flow on the $L^q$-Wasserstein space over a complete Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry condition. Then we introduce the Langevin deformation on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Rong Lei , Xiang-Dong Li , Yu-Zhao Wang

We study the canonical heat flow $(\mathsf{H}_t)_{t\geq 0}$ on the cotangent module $L^2(T^*M)$ over an $\mathrm{RCD}(K,\infty)$ space $(M,\mathsf{d},\mathfrak{m})$, $K\in\boldsymbol{\mathrm{R}}$. We show Hess-Schrader-Uhlenbrock's…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Mathias Braun

Non linear sigma models are quantum field theories describing, in the large deviations sense, random fluctuations of harmonic maps between a Riemann surface and a Riemannian manifold. Via their formal renormalization group analysis, they…

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We use a Riemannnian approximation scheme to define a notion of $\textit{sub-Riemannian Gaussian curvature}$ for a Euclidean $C^{2}$-smooth surface in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}$ away from characteristic points, and a notion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Zoltán Balogh , Jeremy T. Tyson , Eugenio Vecchi

Local thermal equilibrium generally implies the absence of heat flux within a fluid. We find the relations between a set of thermodynamic variables of a fluid on a general spacetime and those defined on a conformally connected spacetime,…

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We prove that the Gini coefficient of economic inequality is a Lyapunov functional for a class of nonlinear, nonlocal integro-differential equations arising at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and statistical physics. Next, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 David W. Cohen

Looking for the underlying hydrodynamic mechanisms determining the elliptic flow we show that for an expanding relativistic perfect fluid the transverse flow may derive from a solvable hydrodynamic potential, if the entropy is transversally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 Robi Peschanski , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

This paper introduces in a natural way a notion of horizontal convex envelopes of continuous functions in the Heisenberg group. We provide a convexification process to find the envelope in a constructive manner. We also apply the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Qing Liu , Xiaodan Zhou

In this short paper we provide a new proof of the geometric Forward-Reverse Brascamp-Lieb inequality, using the approach of the heat semigroup, or the heat flow. Furthermore, we characterize all the Forward-Reverse Brascamp-Lieb data such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ye Zhang

We study the Wasserstein gradient flow of semi-discrete energies in the space of probability measures, that is functionals depending on two measures-one being an absolutely continuous density and the other an atomic measure. These energies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Joao Miguel Machado

We consider the Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid hydrodynamics of superfluid liquid as an effective theory, which provides a self-consistent analog of Einstein equations for gravity and matter.

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