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We present new point of view on the old problem, the Kramers problem. The passage from the Fokker-Planck equation to the Smoluchowski equation, including corrections to the Smoluchowski current, is treated through an asymptotic expansion of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Samoletov

This letter is devoted to results on intermediate asymptotics for the heat equation. We study the convergence towards a stationary solution in self-similar variables. By assuming the equality of some moments of the initial data and of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-18 Jean-Philippe Bartier , Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Miguel Escobedo

We prove existence, uniqueness and regularity of weak solutions of Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equations with either local or non-local diffusion in the velocity variable and rough diffusion coefficients or kernels. Our results cover the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Pascal Auscher , Cyril Imbert , Lukas Niebel

A kinetic-fluid model describing the evolutions of disperse two-phase flows is considered. The model consists of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation for the particles (disperse phase) coupled with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Fucai Li , Yanmin Mu , Dehua Wang

The goal of this paper is to study weak solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation. We first discuss existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in an irregular context, providing a unified treatment of the available literature along with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Paolo Bonicatto , Gennaro Ciampa , Gianluca Crippa

By constructing successful couplings for degenerate diffusion processes, explicit derivative formula and Harnack type inequalities are presented for solutions to a class of degenerate Fokker-Planck equations on $\R^m\times\R^{d}$. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Arnaud Guillin , Feng-Yu Wang

The Fokker-Planck equation describing the transport of energetic particles interacting with turbulence is difficult to solve analytically. Numerical solutions are of course possible but they are not always useful for applications. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

We consider three classes of linear non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equations having a unique steady state and establish exponential convergence of solutions towards the steady state with explicit (estimates of) decay rates. First,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Dominik Stürzer

We consider kinetic Fokker-Planck (or Vlasov-Fokker-Planck) equations on the torus with Maxwellian or fat tail local equilibria. Results based on weak norms have recently been achieved by S. Armstrong and J.-C. Mourrat in case of Maxwellian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Giovanni Brigati

We propose a stable Petrov-Galerkin discretization of a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation constructed in such a way that uniform inf-sup stability can be inferred directly from the variational formulation. Inspired by well-posedness results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Julia Brunken , Kathrin Smetana

We study one-dimensional functional inequalities of the type of Poincar\'e, logarithmic Sobolev and Wirtinger, with weight, for probability densities with polynomial tails. As main examples, we obtain sharp inequalities satisfied by inverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Giulia Furioli , Ada Pulvirenti , Elide Terraneo , Giuseppe Toscani

We propose a discrete lattice version of the Fokker-Planck kinetic equation along lines similar to the Lattice-Boltzmann scheme. Our work extends an earlier one-dimensional formulation to arbitrary spatial dimension $D$. A generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniele Moroni , Benjamin Rotenberg , Jean-Pierre Hansen , Sauro Succi , Simone Melchionna

Mathematical structure of the reflection coefficients for the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation is studied. A new formalism using differential operators is introduced and applied to the analysis in high- and low-energy regions.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Toru Miyazawa

Motivated by recent results on the (possibly conditional) regularity for time-dependent hypoelliptic equations, we prove a parabolic version of the Poincar\'e inequality, and as a consequence, we deduce a version of the classical Moser…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-27 G. Citti , M. Mandredini , Y. Sire

We extend a recently introduced free-energy formalism for homogeneous Fokker-Planck equations to a wide, and physically appealing, class of inhomogeneous nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations. In our approach, the free-energy functional is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Gabriele Sicuro , Peter Rapčan , Constantino Tsallis

The Fokker--Planck equation is a key ingredient of many models in physics, and related subjects, and arises in a diverse array of settings. Analytical solutions are limited to special cases, and resorting to numerical simulation is often…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 R. J. Martin , R. V. Craster , A. Pannier , M. J. Kearney

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

We use methods from microlocal analysis and quantum scattering to study spectral properties near the threshold zero of the Kramers-Fokker-Planck operator with a decaying potential in $\mathbb R^n$, $n \ge 4$, and deduce the large-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xinghong Pan , Xue Ping Wang , Lu Zhu

In this note, we consider a kinetic Fokker-Planck-Alignment equation with Rayleigh-type friction and self-propulsion force which is derived from general environmental averaging models. We show the exponential relaxation in time toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Vinh Nguyen

This paper introduces a general class of Replicator-Mutator equations on a multi-dimensional fitness space. We establish a novel probabilistic representation of weak solutions of the equation by using the theory of Fockker-Planck-Kolmogorov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Lijun Bo , Huafu Liao