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This paper is devoted to a fundamental solution of a nonlinear kinetic equation involving a porous medium or fast diffusion operator acting on velocities. Such a nonlinearity has interesting scaling properties, which result in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Giovanni Brigati , Guillaume Carlier , Jean Dolbeault

Stochastic dynamical systems provide essential mathematical frameworks for modeling complex real-world phenomena. The Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation governs the evolution of probability density functions associated with stochastic…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-13 Yi Zhang , Yiting Duan , Xiangjun Wang , Zhikun Zhang

The steady state of the Fokker-Planck equation corresponding to a density dependent one-step process is approximated by a suitable normal distribution. Starting from the master equations of the process, written in terms of the time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter L. Simon , Eszter Sikolya

In finite-size population models, one can derive Fokker-Planck equations to describe the fluctuations of the species numbers about the deterministic behaviour. In the steady state of populations comprising two or more species, it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-26 D I Russell , R A Blythe

This paper introduces a comprehensive extension of the path integral formalism to model stochastic processes with arbitrary multiplicative noise. To do so, It\^o diffusive process is generalized by incorporating a multiplicative noise term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 F. S. Abril-Bermúdez , C. J. Quimbay , J. E. Trinidad-Segovia , M. A Sánchez-Granero

In many instances, the dynamical richness and complexity observed in natural phenomena can be related to stochastic drives influencing their temporal evolution. For example, random noise allied to spatial asymmetries may induce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 K. S. Fa , C. -L. Ho , Y. B. Matos , M. G. E da Luz

In models of opinion dynamics, many parameters -- either in the form of constants or in the form of functions -- play a critical role in describing, calibrating, and forecasting how opinions change with time. When examining a model of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Weiqi Chu , Qin Li , Mason A. Porter

The Integrate-and-Fire model is a Fokker-Planck equation arising in neuroscience. It describes the evolution of the probability density of the neuronal membrane potential and fitting has shown that the inclusion of a em superlinear drift…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Benoît Perthame , Clément Rieutord , Delphine Salort

Identification of nonlinear dynamical systems is crucial across various fields, facilitating tasks such as control, prediction, optimization, and fault detection. Many applications require methods capable of handling complex systems while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Luc Brogat-Motte , Riccardo Bonalli , Alessandro Rudi

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

We consider a control problem for the nonlinear stochastic Fokker--Planck equation. This equation describes the evolution of the distribution of nonlocally interacting particles affected by a common source of noise. The system is directed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ben Hambly , Philipp Jettkant

Models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence have been presented independently by Krause and Hegselmann and by Deffuant et al in 2000. They have raised a fair amount of attention in the communities of social simulation,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-03-06 Jan Lorenz

Despite the huge number of neurons composing a brain network, ongoing activity of local cell assemblies composing cortical columns is intrinsically stochastic. Fluctuations in their instantaneous rate of spike firing $\nu(t)$ scale with the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-15 Gianni V. Vinci , Roberto Benzi , Maurizio Mattia

We consider a certain class of nonlinear maps that preserve the probability simplex, i.e., stochastic maps, that are inspired by the DeGroot-Friedkin model of belief/opinion propagation over influence networks. The corresponding dynamical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Zahra Askarzadeh , Rui Fu , Abhishek Halder , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

In this work we study a 3-state ($+1$, $-1$, $0$) opinion model in the presence of noise and disorder. We consider pairwise competitive interactions, with a fraction $p$ of those interactions being negative (disorder). Moreover, there is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-05 Allan R. Vieira , Nuno Crokidakis

A general approach to consider spatially extended stochastic systems with correlations between additive and multiplicative noises subject to nonlinear damping is developed. Within modified cumulant expansion method, we derive an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Olemskoi , D. O. Kharchenko , I. A. Knyaz'

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We present an analytical framework to study the first-passage (FP) and first-return (FR) distributions for the broad family of models described by the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in finite domains, identifying general properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Oriol Artime , Nagi Khalil , Raul Toral , Maxi San Miguel

The strong well-posedness of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Dean-Kawasaki (VFPDK) equation with correlated noise is established. This equation can be interpreted as the fluctuating mean-field limit of second-order Newtonian particle systems,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zimo Hao , Zhengyan Wu , Johannes Zimmer

McKean-Vlasov SDEs describe systems where the dynamics depend on the law of the process. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation is a nonlinear, nonlocal PDE for the corresponding measure flow. In the presence of common noise and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Fabio Bugini , Peter K. Friz , Wilhelm Stannat