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We consider the initial-boundary value problem for an incompressible Oldroyd-B model with stress diffusion in two-dimensional upper half plane which describes the motion of viscoelastic polymeric fluids. From the physical point of view, the…
It is well known that nonlinear diffusion equations can be interpreted as a gradient flow in the space of probability measures equipped with the Euclidean Wasserstein distance. Under suitable convexity conditions on the nonlinearity, due to…
We consider some (anisotropic and piecewise constant) convection-diffusion-reaction problems in domains of R2, approximated by a discontinuous Galerkin method with polynomials of any degree. We propose two a posteriori error estimators…
In this note we present some gradient estimates for the diffusion equation $\partial_t u=\Delta u-\nabla \phi \cdot \nabla u $ on Riemannian manifolds, where $\phi $ is a C^2 function, which generalize estimates of R. Hamilton's and Qi S.…
We look at a superposition of symmetric simple exclusion and Glauber dynamics in the discrete torus in dimension 1. For this model, we prove that the fluctuations around the hydrodynamic limit are described, in the diffusive scale, by an…
We establish a priori Lipschitz estimates for equations with mixed local and nonlocal diffusion, coercive gradient terms and unbounded right-hand side in Lebesgue spaces through an integral refinement of the Bernstein method. This relies on…
The Wasserstein distance quantifies the distance between two probability measures on a metric space. We prove an analogue of the Berry-Esseen inequality for the Wasserstein distance on a finite area hyperbolic surface. This inequality…
We introduce a non-local $L^2$-gradient flow for the Willmore energy of immersed surfaces which preserves the isoperimetric ratio. For spherical initial data with energy below an explicit threshold, we show long-time existence and…
Diffusion models are recent state-of-the-art methods for image generation and likelihood estimation. In this work, we generalize continuous-time diffusion models to arbitrary Riemannian manifolds and derive a variational framework for…
For statistical models on circles, we investigate performance of estimators defined as the projections of the empirical distribution with respect to the Wasserstein distance. We develop algorithms for computing the Wasserstein projection…
Score-based diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools in generative modeling, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexplored. In this work, we focus on the Wasserstein convergence analysis of score-based diffusion models.…
We prove a refined contraction inequality for diffusion semigroups with respect to the Wasserstein distance on a compact Riemannian manifold taking account of the dimension. The result generalizes in a Riemannian context, the dimensional…
We prove a Trotter product formula for gradient flows in metric spaces. This result is applied to establish convergence in the L^2-Wasserstein metric of the splitting method for some Fokker-Planck equations and porous medium type equations…
What is the optimal way to approximate a high-dimensional diffusion process by one in which the coordinates are independent? This paper presents a construction, called the \emph{independent projection}, which is optimal for two natural…
We provide an estimation of the dissipation of the Wasserstein 2 distance between the law of some interacting $N$-particle system, and the $N$ times tensorized product of solution to the corresponding limit nonlinear conservation law. It…
We study the initial-boundary value problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with nonlinear diffusion $u_t=\Delta_p u+|\nabla u|^q$ in a two-dimensional domain for $q>p>2$. It is known that the spatial derivative of solutions may become…
We characterize diffusion matrices that yield a $L^{\infty}$ convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^2)$ in the theory of periodic homogenization of linear elliptic equations in nondivergence-form. Such type-$\varepsilon^2$ diffusion…
The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…
In this paper, we focus on non-asymptotic bounds related to the Euler scheme of an ergodic diffusion with a possibly multiplicative diffusion term (non-constant diffusion coefficient). More precisely, the objective of this paper is to…
We consider a slow diffusion equation with a singular quenching term, extending the mathematical treatment made in 1992 by B. Kawohl and R. Kersner for the one-dimensional case. Besides the existence of a very weak solution, we prove some…