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We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham

This work establishes a Lipschitz stability result for identifying unknown polygonal inclusions along with their unknown constant conductivity values, given boundary measurements encoded in the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tianrui Dai

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arthur Stéphanovitch

In this article, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for a constrained optimal control problem formulated in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. To this end, we introduce a new notion of localised metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

The stability problem of a class of nonlinear switched systems defined on compact sets with state-dependent switching is considered. Instead of the Caratheodory solutions, the general Filippov solutions are studied. This encapsulates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Hamed Mojallali , Rafael Wisniewski

The present paper is devoted to the investigation of absolutely continuous curves in asymmetric metric spaces induced by Finsler structures. Firstly, for asymmetric spaces induced by Finsler manifolds, we show that three different kinds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Fue Zhang , Wei Zhao

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

In this article, we establish necessary and sufficient viability conditions for continuity inclusions over the 1-Wasserstein space. Depending on the regularity properties of the dynamics, we derive two results which are based on fairly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Alberto Domínguez Corella , Hélène Frankowska

In this article, we develop a comprehensive ODE-theory for structured continuity equations in fibred probability spaces, which represent a class of heterogeneous PDEs arising as the meanfield limit nonexchangeable particle systems. After…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil

We develop a contraction-based framework to establish the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions in planar nonsmooth dynamical systems governed by Filippov differential inclusions. The method integrates a time- and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Pascal Stiefenhofer

We introduce a new formulation for differential equation describing dynamics of measures on an Euclidean space, that we call Measure Differential Equations with sources. They mix two different phenomena: on one side, a transport-type term,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

In this paper we investigate the approximation of continuous functions on the Wasserstein space by smooth functions, with smoothness meant in the sense of Lions differentiability. In particular, in the case of a Lipschitz function we are…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Andrea Cosso , Mattia Martini

The general theory of Lyapunov's stability of first-order differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces has been studied by the authors in a previous work. This new contribution focuses on the natural case when the maximally monotone operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Samir Adly , Abderrahim Hantoute , Michel Thera

In the present paper, a systematic study is made of quantitative semicontinuity (a.k.a. Lipschitzian) properties of certain multifunctions, which are defined as a solution map associated to a family of parameterized ``split" feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Amos Uderzo

For stochastic approximation algorithms with discontinuous dynamics, it is shown that under suitable distributional assumptions, the interpolated iterates track a Fillipov solution of the limiting differential inclusion. In addition, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Vivek Borkar , Dhruv Shah

We study the differential inclusion $Du\in K$, where $K$ is an unbounded and rotationally invariant subset of the real symmetric $3\times 3$ matrices. We exhibit a subset of all possible average fields. The corresponding microgeometries are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Nathan Albin , Vincenzo Nesi , Mariapia Palombaro

The framework of differential inclusions encompasses modern optimal control and the calculus of variations. Necessary optimality conditions in the literature identify potentially optimal paths, but do not show how to perturb paths to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-01 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

We develop an analysis of wavelets and pseudodifferential operators on multidimensional ultrametric spaces which are defined as products of locally compact ultrametric spaces. We introduce bases of wavelets, spaces of generalized functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 S. Albeverio , S. V. Kozyrev

We introduce and investigate a notion of multivalued $\lambda$-dissipative probability vector field (MPVF) in the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathsf X)$ of Borel probability measures on a Hilbert space $\mathsf X$. Taking inspiration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Giulia Cavagnari , Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

This paper is a continuation of our accompanying paper [Talbi, Touzi and Zhang (2021)], where we characterized the mean field optimal stopping problem by an obstacle equation on the Wasserstein space of probability measures, provided that…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Mehdi Talbi , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang