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In this paper, we study solutions of the heterogeneous diffusion process with power-law nonlinearity governed by the stochastic differential equation $\mathrm{d}X_t= |X_t|^\alpha\,\mathrm{d}B_t + \alpha\lambda…

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This paper derives recursion equations for a robust smoothing problem for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertainties in modeling and exogenous noise sources. The systems considered operate in discrete-time and the uncertainties are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Abhijit G. Kallapur , Ian R. Petersen

We consider the problem to steer a linear dynamical system with full state observation from an initial gaussian distribution in state-space to a final one with minimum energy control. The system is stochastically driven through the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires powerful and flexible priors. We propose leveraging pretrained latent diffusion models for this task through a new training-free approach, termed Diffusion-regularized Wasserstein Gradient Flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Tim Y. J. Wang , O. Deniz Akyildiz

A nonlinear diffusion equation is proposed to account for thermalization in fermionic and bosonic systems through analytical solutions. For constant transport coefficients, exact time-dependent solutions are derived through nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Georg Wolschin

The 3D spatially periodic Navier-Stokes equation is posed as a nonlinear matrix differential equation. When the flow is assumed to be a time series having unknown wavenumber coefficients, then the matrix in this periodic Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-28 David T. Purvance

A considerable number of systems have recently been reported in which Brownian yet non-Gaussian dynamics was observed. These are processes characterised by a linear growth in time of the mean squared displacement, yet the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-26 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , F. Seno , G. Pagnini , R. Metzler

We consider the slow nonlinear diffusion equation subject to a constant absorption rate and construct local self-similar solutions for reversing (and anti-reversing) interfaces, where an initially advancing (receding) interface gives way to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jamie M. Foster , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

This work studies the instability of stochastic scalar reaction diffusion equations, driven by a multiplicative noise that is white in time and smooth in space, near to zero, which is assumed to be a fixed point for the equation. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Alexandra Blessing , Tommaso Rosati

Long ago appeared a discussion in quantum mechanics of the problem of opening a completely absorbing shutter on which were impinging a stream of particles of definite velocity. The solution of the problem was obtained in a form entirely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir Man'ko , Marcos Moshinsky , Anju Sharma

We present here a new stochastic modelling in the constitution of fluid flow reduced-order models. This framework introduces a spatially inhomogeneous random field to represent the unresolved small-scale velocity component. Such a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 Valentin Resseguier , Etienne Mémin , Dominique Heitz , Bertrand Chapron

We study the weak error associated with the Euler scheme of non degenerate diffusion processes with non smooth bounded coefficients. Namely, we consider the cases of H{\"o}lder continuous coefficients as well as piecewise smooth drifts with…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-28 V Konakov , S Menozzi

This paper explores the reconstruction of drift or diffusion coefficients of a scalar stochastic diffusion processes as it starts from an initial value and reaches, for the first time, a threshold value. We show that the distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guillaume Bal , Tom Chou

Of stochastic differential equations, diffusion processes have been adopted in numerous applications, as more relevant and flexible models. This paper studies diffusion processes in a different setting, where for a given stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Saber Jafarizadeh

This paper develops a theory of propagation of chaos for a system of weakly interacting particles whose terminal configuration is fixed as opposed to the initial configuration as customary. Such systems are modeled by backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Mathieu Laurière , Ludovic Tangpi

Drawing from the theory of stochastic differential equations, we introduce a novel sampling method for known distributions and a new algorithm for diffusion generative models with unknown distributions. Our approach is inspired by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

We consider a stochastically perturbed reaction diffusion equation in a bounded interval, with boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases at the endpoints. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the front separating the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 L. Bertini , S. Brassesco , P. Buttà

We study a nonlinear pseudodifferential equation describing the dynamics of dislocations. The long time asymptotics of solutions is described by the self-similar profiles.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Piotr Biler , Grzegorz Karch , Regis Monneau

A recently proposed stochastic hidden variable model for quantum mechanics has been claimed to involve "retrocausality" due to the appearance of equations of motion with future-time boundary conditions. We formulate an equivalent system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 William S. DeWitt , Benjamin H. Feintzeig

A recent paper of Melbourne & Stuart, A note on diffusion limits of chaotic skew product flows, Nonlinearity 24 (2011) 1361-1367, gives a rigorous proof of convergence of a fast-slow deterministic system to a stochastic differential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Georg A. Gottwald , Ian Melbourne