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We introduce an algorithm based on semidefinite programming that yields increasing (resp. decreasing) sequences of lower (resp. upper) bounds on polynomial stationary averages of diffusions with polynomial drift vector and diffusion…

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We introduce a new approach to evaluate the largest Lyapunov exponent of a family of nonnegative matrices. The method is based on using special positive homogeneous functionals on $R^{d}_+,$ which gives iterative lower and upper bounds for…

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We present a coupled system of ODEs which, when discretized with a constant time step/learning rate, recovers Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm. The same ODEs, when discretized with a decreasing learning rate, leads to novel…

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We investigate three types of averaging principles and the normal deviation for multi-scale stochastic differential equations (in short, SDEs) with polynomial nonlinearity. More specifically, we first demonstrate the strong convergence of…

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The focus of this work is on local stability of a class of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODE) that describe limits of empirical measures associated with finite-state weakly interacting N-particle systems. Local Lyapunov…

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We study the problem of solving fixed-point equations for seminorm-contractive operators and establish foundational results on the non-asymptotic behavior of iterative algorithms in both deterministic and stochastic settings. Specifically,…

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Many stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in the literature have a superlinearly growing nonlinearity in their drift or diffusion coefficient. Unfortunately, moments of the computationally efficient Euler-Maruyama approximation method…

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For cooperative random linear systems of ordinary differential equations a method is presented of obtaining lower estimates of the top Lyapunov exponent. The proofs are based on applying some polynomial Lyapunov-like function. Known…

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This paper and its follow-up arXiv:2508.11109 are concerned with the well-posedness and $\mathrm{L}^p$-based Sobolev regularity for appropriate weak formulations of a family of prototypical PDEs posed on manifolds of minimal regularity. In…

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This work develops a particle system addressing the approximation of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The novelty of the approach lies in involving low discrepancy sequences nontrivially in the construction of a…

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We introduce a new class of numerical methods for solving McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations, which are relevant in the context of distribution-dependent or mean-field models, under super-linear growth conditions for both the…

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