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We investigate stochastic reaction-diffusion equations on finite metric graphs. On each edge in the graph a multiplicative cylindrical Gaussian noise driven reaction-diffusion equation is given. The vertex conditions are the standard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Eszter Sikolya

A variety of boundary value problems in linear transport theory are expressed as a diffusion equation of the two-way, or forward-backward, type. In such problems boundary data are specified only on part of the boundary, which introduces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Caleb G. Wagner , Richard Beals

We exhibit a large class of Lyapunov functionals for nonlinear drift-diffusion equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. These are generalizations of large deviation functionals for underlying stochastic many-particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 T. Bodineau , J. L. Lebowitz , C. Mouhot , C. Villani

We consider a general optimal control problem in the setting of gradient flows. Two approximations of the problem are presented, both relying on the variational reformulation of gradient-flow dynamics via the Weighted-Energy-Dissipation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Takeshi Fukao , Ulisse Stefanelli , Riccardo Voso

We study the uniform boundedness of solutions to reaction-diffusion systems possessing a Lyapunov-like function and satisfying an {\it intermediate sum condition}. This significantly generalizes the mass dissipation condition in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jeff Morgan , Bao Quoc Tang

We show that, in strongly chaotic dynamical systems, the average particle velocity can be calculated analytically by consideration of Brownian dynamics in phase space, the method of images and use of the classical diffusion equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Matheus S. Palmero , Gabriel I. Díaz , Peter V. E. McClintock , Edson D. Leonel

Consider a finite system of diffusing particles coupled through a reactive boundary. Each particle is reflected, but may react with the boundary according to a killing mechanism which depends on the current reactivity of the boundary and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark

We consider a class of stochastic control problems which has been widely used in optimal foraging theory. The state processes have two distinct dynamics, characterized by two pairs of drift and diffusion coefficients, depending on whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Zengjing Chen , Panyu Wu , Xiaowen Zhou

Controlling large particle systems in collective dynamics by a few agents is a subject of high practical importance, e.g., in evacuation dynamics. In this paper we study an instantaneous control approach to steer an interacting particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Martin Burger , Rene Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse , Andreas Roth

This paper presents a method for computing two-dimensional constant mean curvature surfaces. The method in question uses the variational aspect of the problem to implement an efficient algorithm. In principle it is a flow like method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Metzger

We consider mean-field control problems in discrete time with discounted reward, infinite time horizon and compact state and action space. The existence of optimal policies is shown and the limiting mean-field problem is derived when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle

We consider a modification of the well studied Hamiltonian Mean-Field model by introducing a hard-core point-like repulsive interaction and propose a numerical integration scheme to integrate numerically its dynamics. Our results show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-16 Luciano Miranda Filho , Igor Melo , Annibal Figueiredo , Tarcisio Rocha Filho , L Filho , Yves Elskens

In recent years, reinforcement learning and its multi-agent analogue have achieved great success in solving various complex control problems. However, multi-agent reinforcement learning remains challenging both in its theoretical analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kai Cui , Mengguang Li , Christian Fabian , Heinz Koeppl

We consider a data-driven formulation of the classical discrete-time stochastic control problem. Our approach exploits the natural structure of many such problems, in which significant portions of the system are uncontrolled. Employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Boris Baros , Samuel N. Cohen , Christoph Reisinger

We present a general method to produce well-conditioned continuum reaction-drift-diffusion equations directly from master equations on a discrete, periodic state space. We assume the underlying data to be kinetic Monte Carlo models (i.e.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-14 Thomas D Swinburne , Danny Perez

We introduce a class of partial differential equations on metric graphs associated with mixed evolution: on some edges we consider diffusion processes, on other ones transport phenomena. This yields a system of equations with possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Amru Hussein , Delio Mugnolo

We introduce a novel particle-based algorithm for end-to-end training of latent diffusion models. We reformulate the training task as minimizing a free energy functional and obtain a gradient flow that does so. By approximating the latter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Tim Y. J. Wang , Juan Kuntz , O. Deniz Akyildiz

We formulate the generalized master equation for a class of continuous time random walks in the presence of a prescribed deterministic evolution between successive transitions. This formulation is exemplified by means of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Eule , R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , I. M. Sokolov

We construct an exactly solvable circuit of interacting memristors and study its dynamics and fixed points. This simple circuit model interpolates between decoupled circuits of isolated memristors, and memristors in series, for which exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-11 Francesco Caravelli , Paolo Barucca

Started from the static excited finite atomic nucleus, we have simulated the dynamical propagation of the nucleons using Quantum Molecular Dynamics model (QMD) without the collision term and calculated the Largest Lyapunov Exponent (LLE).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-25 Yong-Zhong Xing , Wei-Cheng Fu , Xiao-Bin Liu , Fei-Ping Lu , Hong-Fei Zhang , Yu-Ming Zheng