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We provide a general bound on the Wasserstein distance between two arbitrary distributions of sequences of Bernoulli random variables. The bound is in terms of a mixing quantity for the Glauber dynamics of one of the sequences, and a simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Gesine Reinert , Nathan Ross

In this paper, we explore the convergence of the semi-discrete Scharfetter-Gummel scheme for the aggregation-diffusion equation using a variational approach. Our investigation involves obtaining a novel gradient structure for the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Anastasiia Hraivoronska , André Schlichting , Oliver Tse

We present a framework for obtaining explicit bounds on the rate of convergence to equilibrium of a Markov chain on a general state space, with respect to both total variation and Wasserstein distances. For Wasserstein bounds, our main tool…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-28 Neal Madras , Deniz Sezer

We consider the problem of sampling from a probability distribution $\pi$. It is well known that this can be written as an optimisation problem over the space of probability distributions in which we aim to minimise the Kullback--Leibler…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-23 Francesca Romana Crucinio , Sahani Pathiraja

We study the thermodynamic limit of random partition models for the instanton sum of 4D and 5D supersymmetric U(1) gauge theories deformed by some physical observables. The physical observables correspond to external potentials in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Kanehisa Takasaki , Toshio Nakatsu

We study diffusive mixing in the presence of thermal fluctuations under the assumption of large Schmidt number. In this regime we obtain a limiting equation that contains a diffusive thermal drift term with diffusion coefficient obeying a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , E. Vanden-Eijnden

We consider gradient models on the lattice $Z^d$. These models serve as effective models for interfaces and are also known as continuous Ising models. The height of the interface is modelled by a random field with an energy which is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Susanne Hilger

This paper is concerned with the mean-field limit for the gradient flow evolution of particle systems with pairwise Riesz interactions, as the number of particles tends to infinity. Based on a modulated energy method, using regularity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Mitia Duerinckx

The explicit relationship is determined between the interior properties of a static cylindrical matter distribution and the metric of the exterior space-time according to Einstein gravity for space-time dimensionality larger or equal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Colding , N. K. Nielsen , Y. Verbin

We continue the study of Confined Vortex Surfaces (\CVS{}) that we introduced in the previous paper. We classify the solutions of the \CVS{} equation and find the analytical formula for the velocity field for arbitrary background strain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Alexander Migdal

Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) is a deterministic interacting-particle method for sampling from a target probability measure given access to its score function. In the mean-field and continuous-time limit, it is known that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Roberto Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real

We consider a family of one-dimensional diffusions, in dynamical Wiener mediums, which are random perturbations of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion process. We prove quenched and annealed convergences in distribution and under weighted…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Yoann Offret

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization offers a framework for model fitting in machine learning under potential shifts in the data distribution. We study a regularized variant of this problem in which entropic smoothing produces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

Let $M$ be a connected compact Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary, let $V\in C^2(M)$ such that $\mu(\d x):=\e^{V(x)}\d x$ is a probability measure, where $\d x$ is the volume measure, and let $L=\Delta+\nabla V$. The exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Feng-Yu Wang , Bingyao Wu

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

We study the modeling of a compressible two-phase flow in a porous medium. The governing free boundary problem is known as the Verigin problem with phase transition. We introduce a novel variational framework to construct weak solutions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Anna Kubin , Tim Laux , Alice Marveggio

We study gradient models on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with non-convex interactions. These Gibbs fields (lattice models with continuous spin) emerge in various branches of physics and mathematics. In quantum field theory they appear as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-06 Stefan Adams , Roman Kotecký , Stefan Müller

We derive quantitative bounds on the rate of convergence in $L^1$ Wasserstein distance of general M-estimators, with an almost sharp (up to a logarithmic term) behavior in the number of observations. We focus on situations where the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 François Bachoc , Max Fathi

We investigate long-time behaviors of empirical measures associated with subordinated Dirichlet diffusion processes on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$ to some reference measure, under the quadratic Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Huaiqian Li , Bingyao Wu

Consider the wave equation with constant or variable coefficients in $\R^3$. The initial datum is a random function with a finite mean density of energy that also satisfies a Rosenblatt- or Ibragimov-Linnik-type mixing condition. The random…

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