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Some connections between different definitions of Levy Laplacians in the stochastic analysis are considered. Two approaches are used to define these operators. The standard one is based on the application of the theory of Sobolev-Schwartz…

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Stochastic mechanics---the study of classical stochastic systems governed by things like master equations and Fokker-Planck equations---exhibits striking mathematical parallels to quantum mechanics. In this article, we make those parallels…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-01 John J. Vastola , William R. Holmes

We consider the statistical analysis of trajectories on Riemannian manifolds that are observed under arbitrary temporal evolutions. Past methods rely on cross-sectional analysis, with the given temporal registration, and consequently may…

Applications · Statistics 2014-05-06 Jingyong Su , Sebastian Kurtek , Eric Klassen , Anuj Srivastava

(Replacement because mailer changed `hat' for supercript into something weird. The macro `\sp' has been used in place of the `hat' character in this revised version.) Fermionic Brownian paths are defined as paths in a space para\-metr\-ised…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Alice Rogers

A geometric p-rough path can be seen to be a genuine path of finite p-variation with values in a Lie group equipped with a natural distance. The group and its distance lift (R^{d},+,0) and its Euclidean distance. This approach allows us to…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Friz , Nicolas Victoir

In this article we show a robustness theorem for controlled stochastic differential equations driven by approximations of Brownian motion. Often, Brownian motion is used as an idealized model of a diffusion where approximations such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Somnath Pradhan , Zachary Selk , Serdar Yüksel

A Riemannian stochastic representation of model uncertainties in molecular dynamics is proposed. The approach relies on a reduced-order model, the projection basis of which is randomized on a subset of the Stiefel manifold characterized by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Hao Zhang , Johann Guilleminot

With the use of Hida's white noise space theory space theory and spaces of stochastic distributions, we present a detailed analytic continuation theory for classes of Gaussian processes, with focus here on Brownian motion. For the latter,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Luis Daniel Abreu , Daniel Alpay , Tryphon Georgiou , Palle Jorgensen

Ambiguities arising in different approaches (canonical, quasiclassical, path integration) to quantization are discussed by an example of the mechanics of a point-like particle in the Riemannian space (the geodesic dynamics). A way to select…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

This paper explores stochastic modeling approaches to elucidate the intricate dynamics of stock prices and volatility in financial markets. Beginning with an overview of Brownian motion and its historical significance in finance, we delve…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Aashrit Cunchala

We show that the Brownian motion on the complex full flag manifold can be represented by a matrix-valued diffusion obtained from the unitary Brownian motion. This representation actually leads to an explicit formula for the characteristic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Fabrice Baudoin , Nizar Demni , Teije Kuijper , Jing Wang

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary endowed with a magnetic field. A path taken by a particle of unit charge, mass, and energy is called a magnetic geodesic. It is shown that if everything is real-analytic, the topology,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-23 Pilar Herreros , James Vargo

A stochastic algorithm is proposed, finding some elements from the set of intrinsic $p$-mean(s) associated to a probability measure $\nu$ on a compact Riemannian manifold and to $p\in[1,\infty)$. It is fed sequentially with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Marc Arnaudon , Laurent Miclo

This work is concerned with existence of weak solutions to discon- tinuous stochastic differential equations driven by multiplicative Gaus- sian noise and sliding mode control dynamics generated by stochastic differential equations with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Viorel Barbu , Stefano Bonaccorsi , Luciano Tubaro

The aim of this work is to use systematically the symmetries of the (one dimensional) bacward heat equation with potentiel in order to solve certain one dimensional It\^o's stochastic differential equations. The special form of the drift…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Paul Lescot , Hélène Quintard , Jean-Claude Zambrini

Stochastic processes are considered on free loop spaces, geometric loop and diffeomorphism groups of real and complex manifolds. They are used for investigations of Wiener differentiable quasi-invariant measures on such groups relative to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. V. Ludkovsky

By using Malliavin calculus and multiple Wiener-It\^o integrals, we study the existence and the regularity of stochastic currents defined as Skorohod (divergence) integrals with respect to the Brownian motion and to the fractional Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Franco Flandoli , Ciprian Tudor

Stochastic homogenization is achieved for a class of elliptic and parabolic equations describing the lifetime, in large domains, of stationary diffusion processes in random environment which are small, statistically isotropic perturbations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Benjamin J. Fehrman

Gaussian variational approximation is a popular methodology to approximate posterior distributions in Bayesian inference especially in high dimensional and large data settings. To control the computational cost while being able to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Bingxin Zhou , Junbin Gao , Minh-Ngoc Tran , Richard Gerlach

Within path sampling framework, we show that probability distribution divergences, such as the Chernoff information, can be estimated via thermodynamic integration. The Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution pertaining to different Hamiltonians is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-18 Silia Vitoratou , Ioannis Ntzoufras