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We analyse a generalised Fokker-Planck equation by making essential use of its linearisability through a Cole-Hopf transformation. We determine solutions of travelling wave and multi-kink type by resorting to a geometric construction in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Francesco Giglio , Giulio Landolfi , Luigi Martina , Andrea Zingarofalo

We investigate the Cauchy problem and the diffusion asymptotics for a spatially inhomogeneous kinetic model associated to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck operator. We derive the global well-posedness result with instantaneous smoothness effect,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Francesca Anceschi , Yuzhe Zhu

In this paper, we investigate the spectral analysis (from the point of view of semi-groups) of discrete, fractional and classical Fokker-Planck equations. Discrete and fractional Fokker-Planck equations converge in some sense to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Stéphane Mischler , Isabelle Tristani

We study long-time dynamical behaviors of weakly self-consistent Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations. We introduce Hessian matrix conditions on mean-field kernel functions, which characterizes the exponential convergence of solutions in $L^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Qi Feng , Wuchen Li

This note briefly presents a new method for enlarging the functional space of a "spectral-gap-like" estimate of exponential decay on a semigroup. A particular case of the method was first devised in hal-00076709 for the spatially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Clément Mouhot

Kinetics of systems specified by anharmonic, nonconservative and nonlocally coupled model Hamiltonians is reproduced in the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation techniques with subsequent symplectic integration. Test…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Klotins

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We consider classical solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on a bounded domain $\mathcal O \subset~\mathbb{R}^d$ in position, and we obtain a probabilistic representation of the solutions using the Langevin diffusion process with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Tony Lelièvre , Mouad Ramil , Julien Reygner

We consider the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with a class of general force. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a positive normalized equilibrium (in the case of a general force) and establish some exponential rate of convergence to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Chuqi Cao

We present the quantitative method of the recent work arXiv:2209.09340 in a simple setting, together with a compactness argument that was not included in arXiv:2209.09340 and has interest per se. We are concerned with the exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Helge Dietert , Frédéric Hérau , Harsha Hutridurga , Clément Mouhot

In this work we introduce two different generalizations of the Fokker-Planck equation in (1+1) dimensions by replacing the spatial derivatives in terms of generalized Dunkl-type derivatives involving reflection operators. As applications of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 R. D. Mota , D. Ojeda-Guillén , M. A. Xicoténcatl

This article has to do with the derivation and solution of the Fokker--Planck equation associated to the momentum-independent Wigner function, of a particle subjected to a harmonic external field and immersed in a ohmic thermal bath of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pedro J. Colmenares

We analyze the long time behavior of transport equations for a class of dissipative quantum systems with Fokker-planck type scattering operator, subject to confining potentials of harmonic oscillator type. We establish the conditions under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sparber , J. A. Carrillo , J. Dolbeault , P. A. Markowich

A (2+1)-dimensional linear ultra-parabolic Fokker--Planck--Kolmogorov equation is investigated from the group-theoretical point of view. By using the Berest--Aksenov approach, an algebra of invariance of fundamental solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Sergii Kovalenko , Valeriy Stogniy , Maksym Tertychnyi

Based on a general discrete model for a semiflexible polymer chain, we introduce a formal derivation of a kinetic equation for semiflexible polymers in the half-plane via a continuum limit. It turns out that the resulting equation is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jin Woo Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

This paper derives a kinetic equation for a two-dimensional single species point vortex system. We consider a situation (different from the ones considered previously) of weak mean flow where the time scale of the macroscopic motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We obtain the existence, uniqueness and regularity results for solutions to kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with bounded measurable coefficients in the presence of boundary conditions, including the inflow, diffuse reflection and specular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yuzhe Zhu

Many efforts have been made to explore systems that show significant deviations from predictions related to the standard statistical mechanics. The present work introduces a unified formalism that connects divergences, generalized free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Anna L. F. Lucchi , Jean H. Y. Passos , Max Jauregui , Renio S. Mendes

This article studies a Fokker-Planck type equation of fractional diffusion with conservative drift $\partial$f/$\partial$t = $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) f + div(Ef), where $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) denotes the fractional Laplacian and E is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Laurent Lafleche

We establish the global existence of weak solutions to a class of kinetic flocking equations. The models under consideration include the kinetic Cucker-Smale equation with possibly non-symmetric flocking potential, the Cucker-Smale equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Trygve Karper , Antoine Mellet , Konstantina Trivisa