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Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

We derive a relation between the dissipation in a stochastic dynamics and the Wasserstein distance. We show that the minimal amount of dissipation required to transform an initial state to a final state during a diffusion process is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-19 Andreas Dechant , Yohei Sakurai

We consider the fully-coupled McKean-Vlasov equation with multi-time-scale potentials, and all the coefficients depend on the distributions of both the slow component and the fast motion. By studying the smoothness of the solution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Yun Li , Fuke Wu , Longjie Xie

For a class of partially observed diffusions, conditions are given for the map from the initial condition of the signal to filtering distribution to be contractive with respect to Wasserstein distances, with rate which does not necessarily…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Nick Whiteley

We consider the minor process of (Hermitian) matrix diffusions with constant diagonal drifts. At any given time, this process is determinantal and we provide an explicit expression for its correlation kernel. This is a measure on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Patrik L. Ferrari , René Frings

In this paper, we propose a drift-diffusion process on the probability simplex to study stochastic fluctuations in probability spaces. We construct a counting process for linear detailed balanced chemical reactions with finite species such…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu

This work characterizes, analytically and numerically, two major effects of the quadratic Wasserstein ($W_2$) distance as the measure of data discrepancy in computational solutions of inverse problems. First, we show, in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Bjorn Engquist , Kui Ren , Yunan Yang

This short note is on a property of the $\mathcal{W}_2$ Wasserstein distance which indicates that independent elliptical distributions minimize their $\mathcal{W}_2$ Wasserstein distance from given independent elliptical distributions with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

We derive a multidimensional Stein's method for asymptotic independence in the case of a general target $\mu$ with a density, being invariant measure of a diffusion process. It allows us to give a general bound in Wasserstein distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Ciprian A. Tudor , Jérémy Zurcher

In this paper, we provide bounds in Wasserstein and total variation distances between the distributions of the successive iterates of two functional autoregressive processes with isotropic Gaussian noise of the form $Y_{k+1} =…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Alain Durmus , Andreas Eberle , Aurélien Enfroy , Arnaud Guillin , Pierre Monmarché

Divergence functions are measures of distance or dissimilarity between probability distributions that serve various purposes in statistics and applications. We propose decompositions of Wasserstein and Cram\'er distances$-$which compare two…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Johannes Resin , Daniel Wolffram , Johannes Bracher , Timo Dimitriadis

In this paper, we investigate the construction of a diffusion process whose time-marginal densities are constrained to belong to a given set at all time. The construction is obtained from a penalization approximation to the constraint set,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Jean-Francois Jabir

We consider degenerate porous medium equations with a divergence type of drift terms. We establish the existence of $L^{q}$-weak solutions (satisfying energy estimates or even further with moment and speed estimates in Wasserstein spaces),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Sukjung Hwang , Kyungkeun Kang , Haw Kil Kim

It is now well known that curvature conditions \`a la Bakry-Emery are equivalent to contraction properties of the heat semigroup with respect to the classical quadratic Wasserstein distance. However, this curvature condition may include a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-17 François Bolley , Ivan Gentil , Arnaud Guillin

We provide a general steady-state diffusion approximation result which bounds the Wasserstein distance between the reversible measure $\mu$ of a diffusion process and the measure $\nu$ of an approximating Markov chain. Our result is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Thomas Bonis

We study the quantitative convergence of drift-diffusion PDEs that arise as Wasserstein gradient flows of linearly convex functions over the space of probability measures on ${\mathbb R}^d$. In this setting, the objective is in general not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real

We consider the inverse problem of determining the permeability from the pressure in a Darcy model of flow in a porous medium. Mathematically the problem is to find the diffusion coefficient for a linear uniformly elliptic partial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Masoumeh Dashti , Andrew M. Stuart

In this note, we consider a Stochastic Differential Equation under a strong confluence and Lipschitz continuity assumption of the coefficients. For the unique stationary solution, we study the rate of convergence of its empirical measure…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Jean-Francois Chassagneux , Gilles Pagès

We construct geodesics in the Wasserstein space of probability measure along which all the measures have an upper bound on their density that is determined by the densities of the endpoints of the geodesic. Using these geodesics we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-24 Tapio Rajala

Let $\mu_N$ be the empirical measure associated to a $N$-sample of a given probability distribution $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We are interested in the rate of convergence of $\mu_N$ to $\mu$, when measured in the Wasserstein distance of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin
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