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Conformal mapping has been applied mostly to harmonic functions, i.e. solutions of Laplace's equation. In this paper, it is noted that some other equations are also conformally invariant and thus equally well suited for conformal mapping in…

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In this paper we consider a scalar transport equation with constant coefficients on domains with discrete space and continuous, discrete or general time. We show that on all these underlying domains solutions of the transport equation can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Petr Stehlík , Jonáš Volek

In many scientific fields imaging is used to relate a certain physical quantity to other dependent variables. Therefore, images can be considered as a map from a real-world coordinate system to the non-negative measurements being acquired.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Liam Cattell , Gustavo K. Rohde

We give sufficient conditions on initial and target measures supported on the sphere $\S^n$ to ensure the solution to the optimal transport problem with the cost $|x-y|^2/2$ is a diffeomorphism.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Jun Kitagawa , Micah Warren

The fully compressible semi-geostrophic system is widely used in the modelling of large-scale atmospheric flows. In this paper, we prove rigorously the existence of weak Lagrangian solutions of this system, formulated in the original…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 M. J. P. Cullen , D. K. Gilbert , B. Pelloni

Many lamellar systems exhibit strongly anisotropic diffusion. When the diffusion across the lamellae is slow, an alternative mechanism for transverse transport becomes important. A tracer particle can propagate in the direction normal to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor Gurarie , Alexander E. Lobkovsky

Recent advances in large-scale optimal transport have greatly extended its application scenarios in machine learning. However, existing methods either not explicitly learn the transport map or do not support general cost function. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Guansong Lu , Zhiming Zhou , Jian Shen , Cheng Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Optimal transport provides a powerful framework for comparing measures while respecting the geometry of their support, but comes with an expensive computational cost, hindering its potential application to real world use cases. On…

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We propose and analyze a numerical method to solve an elliptic transmission problem in full space. The method consists of a variational formulation involving standard boundary integral operators on the coupling interface and an ultra-weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik

The trace formula for the evolution operator associated with nonlinear stochastic flows with weak additive noise is cast in the path integral formalism. We integrate over the neighborhood of a given saddlepoint exactly by means of a smooth…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Predrag Cvitanovic , C. P. Dettmann , Ronnie Mainieri , Gabor Vattay

Inverting an evolving diffusive scalar field to reconstruct the underlying velocity field is an underdetermined problem. Here we show, however, that for two-dimensional incompressible flows, this inverse problem can still be uniquely solved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 Arjun Sharma , Irina I. Rypina , Ruth Musgrave , George Haller

An equation of Monge-Amp\`ere type has, for the first time, been solved numerically on the surface of the sphere in order to generate optimally transported (OT) meshes, equidistributed with respect to a monitor function. Optimal transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Hilary Weller , Philip Browne , Chris Budd , Mike Cullen

Motivated by recent applications of superdiffusive transport models to shock-accelerated particle distributions in the heliosphere, we solve analytically a one-dimensional fractional diffusion-advection equation for the particle density. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yuri E. Litvinenko , Frederic Effenberger

A positivity-preserving conservative semi-Lagrangian transport model by multi-moment finite volume method has been developed on the cubed-sphere grid. In this paper, two kinds of moments, i.e. point values (PV moment) at cell boundaries and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Jie Tang , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao , Xingliang Li

Semi-discrete optimal transport (SOT), which maps a continuous probability measure to a discrete one, is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications. Entropic regularization is often employed to solve the SOT problem, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Moaad Khamlich , Francesco Romor , Gianluigi Rozza

The nonclassical transport equation models particle transport processes in which the particle flux does not decrease as an exponential function of the particle's free-path. Recently, a spectral approach was developed to generate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Japan K. Patel , Leonardo R. C. Moraes , Richard Vasques , Ricardo C. Barros

We study mass preserving transport of passive tracers in the low-diffusivity limit using Lagrangian coordinates. Over finite-time intervals, the solution-operator of the nonautonomous diffusion equation is approximated by that of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Daniel Karrasch , Nathanael Schilling

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

We prove stable versions of trace theorems on the sphere in $L^2$ with optimal constants, thus obtaining rather precise information regarding near-extremisers. We also obtain stability for the trace theorem into $L^q$ for $q > 2$, by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Neal Bez , Chris Jeavons , Tohru Ozawa , Mitsuru Sugimoto

A semiclassical model of charge transport in a semiconductor superlattice is solved, using moments in the wavenumber direction and finite elements in the spatial direction (first order). The selection of numerical methods guarantees the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 Yossi Farjoun , Luis L. Bonilla