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We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

This paper expands the notion of robust moment problems to incorporate distributional ambiguity using Wasserstein distance as the ambiguity measure. The classical Chebyshev-Cantelli (zeroth partial moment) inequalities, Scarf and Lo (first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Derek Singh , Shuzhong Zhang

This brief note aims to introduce the recent paradigm of distributional robustness in the field of shape and topology optimization. Acknowledging that the probability law of uncertain physical data is rarely known beyond a rough…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Charles Dapogny , Franck Iutzeler , Andrea Meda , Boris Thibert

We derive upper bounds on the fluctuations of a class of random surfaces of the $\nabla \phi$-type with convex interaction potentials. The Brascamp-Lieb concentration inequality provides an upper bound on these fluctuations for uniformly…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Paul Dario

For the discrete random field Curie-Weiss models, the infinite volume Gibbs states and metastates have been investigated and determined for specific instances of random external fields. In general, there are not many examples in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Kalle Koskinen

Random-scan Gibbs samplers possess a natural hierarchical structure. The structure connects Gibbs samplers targeting higher dimensional distributions to those targeting lower dimensional ones. This leads to a quasi-telescoping property of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Qian Qin , Guanyang Wang

We study universality properties of the Weingarten hyper-cubic random surfaces. Since a long time ago the model with a local restriction forbidding surface self-bendings has been thought to be in a different universality class from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Bilke , Z. Burda , B. Petersson

Inspired by recent work on minimizers and gradient flows of constrained interaction energies, we prove that these energies arise as the slow diffusion limit of well-known aggregation-diffusion energies. We show that minimizers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Katy Craig , Ihsan Topaloglu

In this paper, we revisit the Dobrushin uniqueness theorem for Gibbs measures of lattice systems of interacting particles at thermal equilibrium. In a nutshell, Dobrushin's uniqueness theorem provides a practical way to derive sufficient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Tony C. Dorlas , Baptiste Savoie

The duality in Bakry-\'Emery's gradient estimates and Wasserstein controls for heat distributions is extended to that in refined estimates in a high generality. As a result, we find an equivalent condition to Bakry-Ledoux's refined gradient…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Kazumasa Kuwada

We study the heat equation on a half-space or on an exterior domain with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to establish the rate of convergence to solutions of the Laplace equation with the same dynamical boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Marek Fila , Kazuhiro Ishige , Tatsuki Kawakami , Johannes Lankeit

Numerous infinite dimensional dynamical systems arising in different fields have been shown to exhibit a gradient flow structure in the Wasserstein space. We construct Two Point Flux Approximation Finite Volume schemes discretizing such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

The Wasserstein distance between two probability measures on a metric space is a measure of closeness with applications in statistics, probability, and machine learning. In this work, we consider the fundamental question of how quickly the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Jonathan Weed , Francis Bach

We discuss non-equilibrium thermodynamics of the mean field Ising model from a geometric perspective, focusing on the thermodynamic limit. When the number of spins is finite, the Gibbs equilibria form a smooth Legendrian submanifold in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich , Lenya Ryzhik

We develop a projected Wasserstein distance for the two-sample test, a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning: given two sets of samples, to determine whether they are from the same distribution. In particular, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-01 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

We extend the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation (SCOZA), first formulated in the context of liquid-state theory, to the study of the random field Ising model. Within the replica formalism, we treat the quenched random field as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Kierlik , M. L. Rosinberg , G. Tarjus

We study the sine-Gordon quantum field theory at finite temperature by generalizing the method of random surfaces to compute the free energy and one-point functions of exponential operators non-perturbatively. Focusing on the gapped phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 M. Tóth , J. H. Pixley , D. Szász-Schagrin , G. Takács , M. Kormos

Aims. Our goal is to find a converged cooling limit for fragmentation in self-gravitating disks. This is especially interesting for the formation of planets, brown dwarfs or stars and the growth of black holes. While investigating the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Jannes Klee , Tobias F. Illenseer , Manuel Jung , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We provide new bounds for the rate of convergence of the multivariate Central Limit Theorem in Wasserstein distances of order $p \geq 2$. In particular, we obtain what we conjecture to be the asymptotically optimal rate whenever the density…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Thomas Bonis

We develop the theory of discrete-time gradient flows for convex functions on Alexandrov spaces with arbitrary upper or lower curvature bounds. We employ different resolvent maps in the upper and lower curvature bound cases to construct…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Shin-ichi Ohta , Miklós Pálfia