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The propagation of gradient flow structures from microscopic to macroscopic models is a topic of high current interest. In this paper we discuss this propagation in a model for the diffusion of particles interacting via hard-core exclusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , José Antonio Carrillo

We describe conditions on non-gradient drift diffusion Fokker-Planck equations for its solutions to converge to equilibrium with a uniform exponential rate in Wasserstein distance. This asymptotic behaviour is related to a functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 François Bolley , Ivan Gentil , Arnaud Guillin

We have derived a fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in a general space-and- time-dependent force field from power law waiting time continuous time random walks biased by Boltzmann weights. The governing equation is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-27 B. I. Henry , T. A. M Langlands , P. Straka

The Schrodinger equation is considered with the first order time derivative changed to a Caputo fractional derivative, the time fractional Schrodinger equation. The resulting Hamiltonian is found to be non-Hermitian and non-local in time.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Naber

New kind of differential equations, called local fractional differential equations, has been proposed for the first time. They involve local fractional derivatives introduced recently. Such equations appear to be suitable to deal with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Anil D. Gangal

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 begin with a treatment of the Caputo time-fractional diffusion equation, by using the Laplace transform, to obtain a Volterra intego-differential equation where we may examine the weakly singular nature of this convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Wesley Davis , Richard Noren , Ke Shi

An implicit finite difference method with non-uniform timesteps for solving the fractional diffusion equation in the Caputo form is proposed. The method allows one to build adaptive methods where the size of the timesteps is adjusted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Santos B. Yuste , Joaquín Quintana-Murillo

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck system of equations used to model ionic transport is interpreted as a gradient flow for the Wasserstein distance and a free energy in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 David Kinderlehrer , Léonard Monsaingeon , Xiang Xu

We apply a composite idea of semi-discrete finite difference approximation in time and Galerkin finite element method in space to solve the Navier-Stokes equations with Caputo derivative of order 0 < {\alpha} < 1. The stability properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Guang-an Zou , Yong Zhou , Bashir Ahmad , Ahmed Alsaedi

Sampling from nonsmooth target probability distributions is essential in various applications, including the Bayesian Lasso. We propose a splitting-based sampling algorithm for the time-implicit discretization of the probability flow for…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-14 Fuqun Han , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

Equation of long-range particle drift and diffusion on three-dimensional physical lattice is suggested. This equation can be considered as a lattice analogof space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation for continuum. The lattice approach gives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

We derive the Fokker-Planck equation on the parametric space. It is the Wasserstein gradient flow of relative entropy on the statistical manifold. We pull back the PDE to a finite dimensional ODE on parameter space. Some analytical example…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Wuchen Li , Shu Liu , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We present a novel approximate inference method for diffusion processes, based on the Wasserstein gradient flow formulation of the diffusion. In this formulation, the time-dependent density of the diffusion is derived as the limit of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-13 Charlie Frogner , Tomaso Poggio

This article is devoted to presenting an abstract theory on time-fractional gradient flows for nonconvex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. Main results consist of local and global in time existence of (continuous) strong solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Goro Akagi , Yoshihito Nakajima

In this paper, we study a fast and linearized finite difference method to solve the nonlinear time-fractional wave equation with multi fractional orders. We first propose a discretization to the multi-term Caputo derivative based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Pin Lyu , Yuxiang Liang , Zhibo Wang

This paper establishes Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov type equations for time-changed Gaussian processes. Examples include those equations for a time-changed fractional Brownian motion with time-dependent Hurst parameter and for a time-changed…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Marjorie G. Hahn , Kei Kobayashi , Jelena Ryvkina , Sabir Umarov

We prove existence of weak solutions of a fractional thin film type equation in any space dimension and for any order of the equation. The proof is based on a gradient flow technique in the space of Borel probability measures endowed with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Stefano Lisini

The fractional Fokker-Planck system with multiple internal states is derived in [Xu and Deng, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., $\mathbf{13}$, 10 (2018)], where the space derivative is Laplace operator. If the jump length distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng