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A nonlinear parabolic equation of sixth order is analyzed. The equation arises as a reduction of a model from quantum statistical mechanics, and also as the gradient flow of a second-order information functional with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott

It is long known that the Fokker-Planck equation with prescribed constant coefficients of diffusion and linear friction describes the ensemble average of the stochastic evolutions in velocity space of a Brownian test particle immersed in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kiessling , Carlo Lancellotti

We motivate and derive novel Riemannian gradient structures on the space of Lorenz curves, which preserve infinite-dimensional variational principles inherited from Fokker-Planck equations via the lens of Wasserstein geometry and its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-28 David W. Cohen

We study the connection between the parameters of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which is associated with the overdamped Langevin equation driven by noise with heavy-tailed increments, and the transition probability density of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-09 S. I. Denisov , Peter Hänggi , Holger Kantz

We prove a Trotter product formula for gradient flows in metric spaces. This result is applied to establish convergence in the L^2-Wasserstein metric of the splitting method for some Fokker-Planck equations and porous medium type equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-07 Philippe Clément , Jan Maas

In this paper we proceed with investigation of connections between Fokker - Planck equation and continuum mechanics. We base upon expressions from our work [2], based upon the spectral decomposition of Fokker - Planck equation solution. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-17 Igor A. Tanski

The Fokker-Planck equation with diffusion coefficient quadratic in space variable, linear drift coefficient, and nonlocal nonlinearity term is considered in the framework of a model of analysis of asset returns at financial markets. For…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-10 Alexander Shapovalov , Andrey Trifonov , Elena Masalova

We prove the convergence of a Wasserstein gradient flow of a free energy in inhomogeneous media. Both the energy and media can depend on the spatial variable in a fast oscillatory manner. In particular, we show that the gradient-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yuan Gao , Nung Kwan Yip

We derive a stochastic wave equation for an inflaton in an environment of an infinite number of fields. We study solutions of the linearized stochastic evolution equation in an expanding universe. The Fokker-Planck equation for the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 Z. Haba

We revisit the variational characterization of diffusion as entropic gradient flux and provide for it a probabilistic interpretation based on stochastic calculus. It was shown by Jordan, Kinderlehrer, and Otto that, for diffusions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Ioannis Karatzas , Walter Schachermayer , Bertram Tschiderer

We consider the Fokker-Planck equation on metric graphs. Vertex boundary conditions are imposed in the form of weight continuity and the probability current conservation. Exact solution of the is obtained for star, tree and loop graphs.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jasur Matrasulov , Karimjon Sabirov

Starting from the microscopic reduced Hartree-Fock equation, we derive the nanoscopic linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation for the electrostatic potential associated with the electron density.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Ilias , Chenn , Israel Michael Sigal

We develop a new method to solve the Fokker-Planck or Kolmogorov's forward equation that governs the time evolution of the joint probability density function of a continuous-time stochastic nonlinear system. Numerical solution of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

We determine the Lie point symmetries of the Fokker-Planck equation and provide examples of solutions of this equation. The Fokker-Planck equation admits a conserved form, hence there is an auxiliary system associated to this equation and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Faya Doumbo Kamano , Bakary Manga , Joël Tossa

We show that the Fokker Planck equation can be derived from a Hypergeometric differential equation. The same applies to a non linear generalization of such equation.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Plastino , M. C. Rocca

In this paper we study the dynamics of a fast-slow Fokker-Planck partial differential equation (PDE) viewed as the evolution equation for the density of a multiscale planar stochastic differential equation (SDE). Our key focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach

A general type of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is derived directly from a master equation, by introducing generalized transition rates. The H-theorem is demonstrated for systems that follow those classes of nonlinear Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Fernando D. Nobre , Evaldo M. F. Curado

In this article, we establish a general formula for higher order linear functional derivatives for the composition of an arbitrary smooth functional on the 1-Wasserstein space with the solution of a Fokker-Planck PDE. This formula has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Alvin Tse

From a given Fokker-Planck equation, a multi-parameter deformed partner Fokker-Planck equation is constructed. This is done by first deleting a set of eigenstates of the original FPE by the multi-step Darboux-Crum transformation, and then…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Choon-Lin Ho

We derive the generalized Fokker-Planck equation associated with the Langevin equation (in the Ito sense) for an overdamped particle in an external potential driven by multiplicative noise with an arbitrary distribution of the increments of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-29 S. I. Denisov , Werner Horsthemke , Peter Hänggi