English
Related papers

Related papers: Pathwise Convergence of the Hard Spheres Kac Proce…

200 papers

Motivated by a probabilistic approach to Kahler-Einstein metrics we consider a general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics model in Euclidean space consisting of the stochastic gradient flow of a given (possibly singular) quasi-convex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Onnheim

We consider a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the density of interacting and diffusive matter in the space of positions and velocities. We use a probabilistic interpretation to obtain convergence towards equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Francois Bolley , Arnaud Guillin , Florent Malrieu

The Boltzmann equation is an integro-differential equation which describes the density function of the distribution of the velocities of the molecules of dilute monoatomic gases under the assumption that the energy is only transferred via…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-27 George Androulakis , Rade Musulin

This paper is devoted the the study of the mean field limit for many-particle systems undergoing jump, drift or diffusion processes, as well as combinations of them. The main results are quantitative estimates on the decay of fluctuations…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot , Bernt Wennberg

We provide non-asymptotic error bounds in the path Wasserstein distance with quadratic integral cost between suitable functionals of the telegraph process and the corresponding functional of Brownian motion with explicit diffusivity…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Gerardo Barrera , Jani Lukkarinen , Mikko S. Pakkanen

We introduce a Kac's type walk whose rate of binary collisions preserves the total momentum but not the kinetic energy. In the limit of large number of particles we describe the dynamics in terms of empirical measure and flow, proving the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini , Carlo Orrieri

We study fluctuations of mean-field interacting particle systems around their McKean--Vlasov limit. Our main result provides a uniform-in-time quantitative central limit theorem for the fluctuation process, with convergence rate of order…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Solesne Bourguin , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

This work deals with a class of one-dimensional measure-valued kinetic equations, which constitute extensions of the Kac caricature. It is known that if the initial datum belongs to the domain of normal attraction of an \alpha-stable law,…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Federico Bassetti , Eleonora Perversi

We study a hard sphere gas at equilibrium, and prove that in the low density limit, the fluctuations converge to a Gaussian process governed by the fluctuating Boltzmann equation. This result holds for arbitrarily long times. The method of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

We consider particle systems that evolve by inertialess binary interaction through general non-attractive kernels of singularity $|x|^{-\alpha}$ with $\alpha<d-1$. We prove a quantitative mean-field limit in terms of Wasserstein distances…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Richard M. Höfer , Richard Schubert

We analyse the large time behaviour of the rate function that describes the probability of large fluctuations of an underlying microscopic model associated to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, such as the Kac walk. We consider in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini , Daniel Heydecker

In this paper, we are interested in a generalised Vlasov equation, which describes the evolution of the probability density of a particle evolving according to a generalised Vlasov dynamic. The achievement of the paper is twofold. Firstly,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Manh Hong Duong

We introduce a class of Boltzmann equations on the real line, which constitute extensions of the classical Kac caricature. The collisional gain operators are defined by smoothing transformations with quite general properties. By…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-16 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Daniel Matthes

In this paper, uniform in time quantitative propagation of chaos in $L^1$-Wasserstein distance for mean field interacting particle system is derived, where the diffusion coefficient is allowed to be interacting and the drift is assumed to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Xing Huang

We introduce a global thermostat on Kac's 1D model for the velocities of particles in a space-homogeneous gas subjected to binary collisions, also interacting with a (local) Maxwellian thermostat. The global thermostat rescales the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Roberto Cortez , Hagop Tossounian

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 consider the error arising from the approximation of an N-particle dynamics with its description in terms of a one-particle kinetic equation. We estimate the distance between the j-marginal of the system and the factorized state,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Thierry Paul , Mario Pulvirenti , Sergio Simonella

We study the derivation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation from the mean-field limit of a conservative $N$-particle system, obtained by passing to the grazing limit on Kac's walk in his program for the Boltzmann equation. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xuanrui Feng , Zhenfu Wang

We develop the Cauchy theory of the spatially homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation for hard spheres, for a general form of collision rate which includes in particular variable restitution coefficients depending on the kinetic energy and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot , Mariano Rodriguez Ricard

In this paper we devote our attention to a class of weighted ultrafast diffusion equations arising from the problem of quantisation for probability measures. These equations have a natural gradient flow structure in the space of probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Mikaela Iacobelli , Francesco Patacchini , Filippo Santambrogio