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In this work, we examine a kinetic framework for modeling the time evolution of size distribution densities of two populations governed by predator-prey interactions. The model builds upon the classical Boltzmann-type equations, where the…

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We analyze the gradient flow of a potential energy in the space of probability measures when we substitute the optimal transport geometry with a geometry based on Sinkhorn divergences, a debiased version of entropic optimal transport. This…

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We analytically solve for the time dependent solutions of various density evolution models. With specific forms of the diffusion, drift and sink coefficients, the eigenfunctions can be expressed in terms of hypergeometric functions. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Zuparic

We consider a nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous convection and prove that its entropy solutions in the sense of Kru\v{z}kov are obtained as the - a posteriori unique - limit points of the JKO variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Marco Di Francesco , Daniel Matthes

We study a toy model for the evolution of the oxygen concentration in an oxide layer. It consists in a transient convection diffusion equation in a one-dimensional domain of variable width. The motions of the boundaries are governed by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Clément Cancès , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Amélie Dupouy

Much effort has been spent in recent years on restoring uniqueness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with non-smooth coefficients. As a typical instance, the velocity field is assumed to be bounded and measurable in its space variable and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Victor Marx

We propose a finite volume stochastic collocation method for the random Euler system. We rigorously prove the convergence of random finite volume solutions under the assumption that the discrete differential quotients remain bounded in…

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Motivated by a probabilistic approach to Kahler-Einstein metrics we consider a general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics model in Euclidean space consisting of the stochastic gradient flow of a given (possibly singular) quasi-convex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Onnheim

Coevolving and competing species or game-theoretic strategies exhibit rich and complex dynamics for which a general theoretical framework based on finite populations is still lacking. Recently, an explicit mean-field description in the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arne Traulsen , Jens Christian Claussen , Christoph Hauert

The Vlasov-Nordstr\"{o}m-Fokker-Planck system describes the evolution of self-gravitating matter experiencing collisions with a fixed background of particles in the framework of a relativistic scalar theory of gravitation. We study the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 José Antonio Alcántara Felix , Simone Calogero , Stephen Pankavich

We provide a rigorous justification of the classical linearization approach in plasticity. By taking the small-deformations limit, we prove via \Gamma-convergence for rate-independent processes that energetic solutions of the quasi-static…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Alexander Mielke , Ulisse Stefanelli

We present a general abstract framework for the systematic numerical approximation of dissipative evolution problems. The approach is based on rewriting the evolution problem in a particular form that complies with an underlying energy or…

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The gravitational evolution of scale free initial spectra $P(k)\propto k^n$ in an Einstein-de Sitter universe is widely believed to be self-similar for $-3<n<4$. However, for $-3<n<-1$ the existence of self-similar scaling has not been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Bhuvnesh Jain , Edmund Bertschinger

We study an evolution equation that is the gradient flow in the $2$-Wasserstien metric of a non-convex functional for densities in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n \geq 3$. Like the Patlack-Keller-Segel system on $\mathbb{R}^2$, this evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Eric A. Carlen , Suleyman Ulusoy

We establish rigorously the equivalence between classical moment closure and a nonlinear variational approximation of the Fokker-Planck equation for dilute polymeric flow in the linearized Hookean spring chain setting. The variational…

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We prove stability estimates for the spatially discrete, Galerkin solution of a fractional Fokker-Planck equation, improving on previous results in several respects. Our main goal is to establish that the stability constants are bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We establish the gradient flow representation of diffusion with mobility $b$ with respect to the modified Wasserstein quasi-metric $W_h$, where $h(r)=rb(r)$. The appropriate selection of the free energy functional depends on the specific…

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The dynamical evolution of a neural network during training has been an incredibly fascinating subject of study. First principal derivation of generic evolution of variables in statistical physics systems has proved useful when used to…

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We consider three classes of linear non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equations having a unique steady state and establish exponential convergence of solutions towards the steady state with explicit (estimates of) decay rates. First,…

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We investigate a scalar partial differential equation model for the formation of biological transportation networks. Starting from a discrete graph-based formulation on equilateral triangulations, we rigorously derive the corresponding…

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