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This thesis develops a new divergence that generalizes relative entropy and can be used to compare probability measures without a requirement of absolute continuity. We establish properties of the divergence, and in particular derive and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Yixiang Mao

Reduced order models of nonlinear conservation laws in fluid dynamics do not typically inherit stability properties of the full order model. We introduce projection-based hyper-reduced models of nonlinear conservation laws which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Jesse Chan

The entropy of a hierarchical network topology in an ensemble of sparse random networks with "hidden variables" associated to its nodes, is the log-likelihood that a given network topology is present in the chosen ensemble.We obtain a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Ginestra Bianconi , Anthony C. C. Coolen , Conrad J. Perez Vicente

The notion of entropy appears in many fields and this paper is a survey about entropies in several branches of Mathematics. We are mainly concerned with the topological and the algebraic entropy in the context of continuous endomorphisms of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Dikran Dikranjan , Anna Giordano Bruno

Neural network approaches have been demonstrated to work quite well to solve partial differential equations in practice. In this context approaches like physics-informed neural networks and the Deep Ritz method have become popular. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Andreas Langer , Sara Behnamian

Partial differential equations are ubiquitous in almost all applications of mathematics, where they provide a natural mathematical description of many phenomena involving change in physical, chemical, biological, and social processes. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-07 John M. Ball , Gui-Qiang G. Chen

The Energy-Dissipation Principle provides a variational tool for the analysis of parabolic evolution problems: solutions are characterized as so-called null-minimizers of a global functional on entire trajectories. This variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Luca Scarpa , Ulisse Stefanelli

This paper defines and discusses the dimension notion of topological slow entropy of any subset for Z^d actions. Also, the notion of measure-theoretic slow entropy for Z^d actions is presented, which is modified from Brin and Katok [2].…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-28 De-Peng Kong , Er-Cai Chen

Recently, the author and collaborators proposed a method to construct a new conserved charge different from the Noether one for general relativistic field theory on curved space-time with energy-momentum tensor covariantly conserved, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Shuichi Yokoyama

We consider multidimensional conservation laws perturbed by multiplicative L\'{e}vy noise. We establish existence and uniqueness results for entropy solutions. The entropy inequalities are formally obtained by the It\^{o}-L\'{e}vy chain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Imran H. Biswas , Kenneth H. Karlsen , Ananta K. Majee

Invariance entropy is a measure for the smallest data rate in a noiseless digital channel above which a controller that only receives state information through this channel is able to render a given subset of the state space invariant. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Christoph Kawan , Adriano Da Silva

We study an entropy measure for quantum systems that generalizes the von Neumann entropy as well as its classical counterpart, the Gibbs or Shannon entropy. The entropy measure is based on hypothesis testing and has an elegant formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 F. Dupuis , L. Kraemer , P. Faist , J. M. Renes , R. Renner

Inspired by Katok's intermediate entropy property [Inst. Hautes \'Etudes Sci. Publ. Math. 51 (1980), 137-173], we introduce and study the notion of entropy flexibility for discrete-time and continuous-time dynamical systems. By using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Alexander Arbieto , Piotr Oprocha , Elias Rego

This paper proposes a first-order total variation diminishing (TVD) treatment for coarsening and refining of local timestep size in response to dynamic local variations in wave speeds for nonlinear conservation laws. The algorithm is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Maximilian Bremer , John Bachan , Cy Chan , Clint Dawson

We give a notion of entropy for general gemetric structures, which generalizes well-known notions of topological entropy of vector fields and geometric entropy of foliations, and which can also be applied to singular objects, e.g. singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Nguyen Tien Zung

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which dynamical laws are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. No underlying action principle is postulated. Instead, the dynamics is driven by entropy subject to the constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 Ariel Caticha

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

In this brief note, we consider the variation of the entanglement entropy of a region as the shape of the entangling surface is changed. We show that the variation satisfies a Wess-Zumino like integrability condition in field theories which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Shamik Banerjee

We derive a measurement-independent asymptotic continuity bound on the observational entropy for general POVM measurements, making essential use of its property of bounded concavity. The same insight is used to obtain continuity bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Joseph Schindler , Andreas Winter