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The object of study in this paper is the expected $2$-Wasserstein distance between the empirical measures of several point processes and their respective limit. For this, the main tool developed is a smoothing procedure in Euclidean spaces…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-20 P. García Arias

Second-order relativistic hydrodynamics is surprisingly predictive, even in the presence of large gradients. The hydrodynamic expansion from the method of moments does not require a gradient expansion, but it is intrinsically bound to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-23 Leonardo Tinti

In this paper, we investigate the exponential ergodicity in a Wasserstein-type distance for a damping Hamiltonian dynamics with state-dependent and non-local collisions, which indeed is a special case of piecewise deterministic Markov…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Jianhai Bao , Jian Wang

As extensions to the corresponding results derived for time homogeneous McKean- Vlasov SDEs, the exponential ergodicity is proved for time-periodic distribution dependent SDEs in three different situations: 1) in the quadratic Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Panpan Ren , Karl-Theodor Sturm , Feng-Yu Wang

We study a natural Wasserstein gradient flow on manifolds of probability distributions with discrete sample spaces. We derive the Riemannian structure for the probability simplex from the dynamical formulation of the Wasserstein distance on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Wuchen Li , Guido Montufar

By means of a space-time Wasserstein control, we show the monotonicity of the W-entropy functional in time along heat flows on possibly singular metric measure spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature and a finite upper bound of dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Kazumasa Kuwada , Xiang-Dong Li

Applying Zvonkin's transform, the exponential convergence in Wasserstein distance for a class of functional SDEs with H\"older continuous drift is obtained. This combining with log-Harnack inequality implies the same convergence in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Xing Huang

In this article, relying on Foster-Lyapunov drift conditions, we establish subexponential upper and lower bounds on the rate of convergence in the $\mathrm{L}^p$-Wasserstein distance for a class of irreducible and aperiodic Markov…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Ari Arapostathis , Guodong Pang , Nikola Sandrić

We develop a novel stability theory for Sinkhorn semigroups based on Lyapunov techniques and quantitative contraction coefficients, and establish exponential convergence of Sinkhorn iterations on weighted Banach spaces. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre del Moral , Joaquin Miguez

On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J McCann

By using the coupling technique, we present sufficient conditions for the exponential ergodicity of general continuous-state nonlinear branching processes in both the $L^1$-Wasserstein distance and the total variation norm, where the drift…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Pei-Sen Li , Jian Wang

It is well-known that many diffusion equations can be recast as Wasserstein gradient flows. Moreover, in recent years, by modifying the Wasserstein distance appropriately, this technique has been transferred to further evolution equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Kaveh Bashiri , Anton Bovier

In this note we continue the analysis of metric measure space with variable ricci curvature bounds. First, we study $(\kappa,N)$-convex functions on metric spaces where $\kappa$ is a lower semi-continuous function, and gradient flow curves…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Christian Ketterer

Contraction in Wasserstein 1-distance with explicit rates is established for generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with stochastic gradients under possibly nonconvex conditions. The algorithms considered include splitting schemes of kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Martin Chak , Pierre Monmarché

In the field of modern high-energy physics research, there is a growing emphasis on utilizing deep learning techniques to optimize event simulation, thereby expanding the statistical sample size for more accurate physical analysis.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Chu-Cheng Pan , Xiang Dong , Yu-Chang Sun , Ao-Yan Cheng , Ao-Bo Wang , Yu-Xuan Hu , Hao Cai

In this paper, we show that the Ricci curvature lower bound in Ollivier's Wasserstein metric sense of a continuous time jumping Markov process on a graph can be characterized by some optimal coupling generator and provide the construction…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Lingyan Cheng , Ruinan Li , Liming Wu

We introduce a family of reversible fragmentating-coagulating processes of particles of varying size-scaled diffusivity with strictly local interaction on the real line as mathematically rigorous description of colloidal motion of fluids.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Vitalii Konarovskyi , Max von Renesse

We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

In this paper, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rate of the empirical measures of point processes under the Wasserstein distance. To this end, we first introduce a new metric on the space of counting measures…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dongzhou Huang , Tianyi Jiang , Haonan Wang

We study the problem of sampling from a distribution $\target$ using the Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm and provide rate of convergences for this algorithm in terms of Wasserstein distance of order $2$. Our result holds as long as the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-07-04 Thomas Bonis