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We consider the volume potential associated with the heat operator and we prove a mapping property in the space of distributions which are the time derivative of H\"older continuous functions. As an application we solve the Dirichlet and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Paolo Luzzini

We describe a general approach to the theory of self consistent transfer operators. These operators have been introduced as tools for the study of the statistical properties of a large number of all to all interacting dynamical systems…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Stefano Galatolo

It has recently been shown that complete Bernstein functions of the Laplace operator map the Dirichlet boundary condition of a related elliptic PDE to the Neumann boundary condition. The importance of this mapping consists in being able to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Sigurd Assing , John Herman

We propose a model of optimal parallel transport between vector fields on a connection graph, which consists of a weighted graph along with a map from its edges to an orthogonal group. Inspired by the well-known equivalence of 1-Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sawyer Robertson , Dhruv Kohli , Gal Mishne , Alexander Cloninger

We consider singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equations on one-dimensional networks (metric graphs) as well as the transport problems arising in the vanishing diffusion limit. Suitable coupling condition at inner vertices are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

A common way to quantify the ,,distance'' between measures is via their discrepancy, also known as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD). Discrepancies are related to Sinkhorn divergences $S_\varepsilon$ with appropriate cost functions as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

This paper is about the construction of displacement interpolations on a discrete metric graph. Our approach is based on the approximation of any optimal transport problem whose cost function is a distance on a discrete graph by a sequence…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Christian Léonard

This work discusses the role of diffusive enthalpy transport in relation to the origin of thermodiffusive instability and the resulting enhanced reactivity. Thermodiffusive effects in premixed hydrogen flames are typically explained and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Thomas L. Howarth , Terence Lehmann , Michael Gauding , Heinz Pitsch

We introduce compactness classes of Hilbert space operators by grouping together all operators for which the associated singular values decay at a certain speed and establish upper bounds for the norm of the resolvent of operators belonging…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ayse Guven , Oscar F. Bandtlow

This paper explores the connection between a generalized Riesz electric energy and norms on the set of probability measures defined in terms of duality. We derive functional inequalities linking these two notions, recovering and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-24 David García-Zelada , David Padilla-Garza

We propose two multiscale comparisons of graphs using heat diffusion, allowing to compare graphs without node correspondence or even with different sizes. These multiscale comparisons lead to the definition of Lipschitz-continuous empirical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Etienne Lasalle

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operators acting on weighted Dirichlet spaces and determine the spectrum of a certain class of such operators. Our results extend…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Anirban Sen

Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Gabriel Peyré

The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

A representation for the Kantorovich--Rubinstein distance between probability measures on an abstract Wiener space in terms of the extended stochastic integral (or, divergence) operator is obtained.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Georgii Riabov

Diffusion maps is a manifold learning algorithm widely used for dimensionality reduction. Using a sample from a distribution, it approximates the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of associated Laplace-Beltrami operators. Theoretical bounds on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Caroline L. Wormell , Sebastian Reich

This paper is devoted to the stochastic approximation of entropically regularized Wasserstein distances between two probability measures, also known as Sinkhorn divergences. The semi-dual formulation of such regularized optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot

We present the idea of intertwining of two diffusions by Feynman-Kac operators. We present some variations and implications of the method and give examples of its applications. Among others, it turns out to be a very useful tool for finding…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Maciej Wiśniewolski , Jacek Jakubowski

In this paper, we use the theory of symmetric Dirichlet forms to give a probabilistic interpretation of Calder\'{o}n's inverse conductivity problem in terms of reflecting diffusion processes and their corresponding boundary trace processes.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Petteri Piiroinen , Martin Simon

We aim at understanding how the non-commutation phenomena between a linear transport operator and a fractional diffusion allow the transport operator to satisfy hypoelliptic estimates on the whole space. Such hypoelliptic estimates are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Paul Alphonse