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We consider the Kinetic Fokker-Planck (FKP) equation in a domain with Maxwell reflection condition on the boundary. We establish the ultracontractivity of the associated semigroup and the hypocoercivity of the associated operator. We deduce…

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The long time behavior and detailed convergence analysis of Langevin equations has received increased attention over the last years. Difficulties arise from a lack of coercivity, usually termed hypocoercivity, of the underlying kinetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either Fokker-Planck or linearized BGK collision operator. Thanks to appropriate uniform estimates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Maxime Herda , Thomas Rey

A tracking type optimal control problem for a nonlinear and nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck equation which arises as the mean field limit of an interacting particle systems that is subject to distance dependent random fluctuations is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

The Fokker-Planck equations for stochastic dynamical systems, with non-Gaussian $\alpha-$stable symmetric L\'evy motions, have a nonlocal or fractional Laplacian term. This nonlocality is the manifestation of the effect of non-Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li

We prove long-time contractivity estimates and exponential rates of convergence to equilibrium for solutions of hypoelliptic diffusion equations, which include the well-known Kolmogorov equation and similar kinetic Fokker-Planck equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nicolò Forcillo , Alessio Porretta

This article addresses the local boundedness and H\"older continuity of weak solutions to kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with general transport operators and rough coefficients. These results are due to the mixing effect of diffusion and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Yuzhe Zhu

We consider the relativistic, spatially inhomogeneous Fokker-Planck equation with an external confining potential. We prove the exponential time decay of solutions towards the global equilibrium in weighted $L^2$ and Sobolov spaces. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Anton Arnold , Gayrat Toshpulatov

The Goldstein-Taylor equations can be thought of as a simplified version of a BGK system, where the velocity variable is constricted to a discrete set of values. It is intimately related to turbulent fluid motion and the telegrapher's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Beatrice Signorello , Tobias Wöhrer

We study the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on the whole space with a confining potential. We show quantitative rates of exponential convergence to equilibrium in a well chosen Wasserstein-1 distance. We use the Wasserstein-1 version of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Josephine Evans

This paper is devoted to the study of a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with general heavy-tailed equilibrium without an explicit formula, such as $C_\beta \langle v \rangle^{-\beta}$, in particular non-symmetric and non-centred. This work…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dahmane Dechicha

We present the quantitative method of the recent work arXiv:2209.09340 in a simple setting, together with a compactness argument that was not included in arXiv:2209.09340 and has interest per se. We are concerned with the exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Helge Dietert , Frédéric Hérau , Harsha Hutridurga , Clément Mouhot

We study convergence to equilibrium of the linear relaxation Boltzmann (also known as linear BGK) and the linear Boltzmann equations either on the torus $(x,v) \in \mathbb{T}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$ or on the whole space $(x,v) \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-10 José A. Cañizo , Chuqi Cao , Josephine Evans , Havva Yoldaş

We study long time behavior of some nonlinear discrete velocity kinetic equations in the one and three dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. We prove the exponential time decay of solutions towards the global equilibrium in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Gayrat Toshpulatov

This paper is concerned with a modified entropy method to establish the large-time convergence towards the (unique) steady state, for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with non-quadratic confinement potentials in whole space. We extend…

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Based on a general discrete model for a semiflexible polymer chain, we introduce a formal derivation of a kinetic equation for semiflexible polymers in the half-plane via a continuum limit. It turns out that the resulting equation is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jin Woo Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

In this paper, we study the Gevrey regularity of weak solutions for a class of linear and semi-linear kinetic equations, which are the linear model of spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equations without an angular cutoff.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Hua Chen , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

In this paper, we study the long time behaviour of the Fokker-Planck and the kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with many body interaction, more precisely with interaction defined by U-statistics, whose macroscopic limits are often called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Mohamed Alfaki Ag Aboubacrine Assadeck

We establish sharp boundary regularity results for solutions to kinetic Fokker-Planck equations under prescribed inflow boundary conditions, providing precise quantification of the boundary hypoelliptic regularization effect. For equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yuzhe Zhu

The kinetic equation is crucial for understanding the statistical properties of stochastic processes, yet current equations, such as the classical Fokker-Planck, are limited to local analysis. This paper derives a new kinetic equation for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-18 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang