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In this paper, we focus on non-asymptotic bounds related to the Euler scheme of an ergodic diffusion with a possibly multiplicative diffusion term (non-constant diffusion coefficient). More precisely, the objective of this paper is to…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Gilles Pages , Fabien Panloup

The celebrated Sutherland-Einstein relation for systems at thermal equilibrium states that spread of trajectories of Brownian particles is an increasing function of temperature. Here, we scrutinize diffusion of underdamped Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Spiechowicz , J. Luczka

This article considers a class of metastable non-reversible diffusion processes whose invariant measure is a Gibbs measure associated with a Morse potential. In a companion paper [32], we proved the Eyring-Kramers formula for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Jungkyoung Lee , Insuk Seo

We study the convergence to equilibrium in high dimensions, focusing on explicit bounds on mixing times and the emergence of the cutoff phenomenon for Dyson-Laguerre processes. These are interacting particle systems with non-constant…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Samuel Chan-Ashing

We study the behavior of the empirical distribution function of iterates of intermittent maps in the Hilbert space of square inegrable functions with respect to Lebesgue measure. In the long-range dependent case, we prove that the empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Jérôme Dedecker , Herold G. Dehling , Murad Taqqu

We study a class of reflected McKean-Vlasov diffusions over a convex domain with self-stabilizing coefficients. This includes coefficients that do not satisfy the classical Wasserstein Lipschitz condition. Further, the process is…

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In this paper, we show that the Gibbs measure of the stochastic hyperbolic sine-Gordon equation on the circle is the unique invariant measure for the Markov process. Moreover, the Markov transition probabilities converge exponentially fast…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Kihoon Seong

We prove the convergence of the law of grid-valued random walks, which can be seen as time-space Markov chains, to the law of a general diffusion process. This includes processes with sticky features, reflecting or absorbing boundaries and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Alexis Anagnostakis , Antoine Lejay , Denis Villemonais

We examine the Langevin diffusion confined to a closed, convex domain $D\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, represented as a reflected stochastic differential equation. We introduce a sequence of penalized stochastic differential equations and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Tarika Mane , Amine Boukardagha

The paper studies a class of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes on the classical Wiener space. These processes are associated with a diffusion type Dirichlet form whose corresponding diffusion operator is unbounded in the Cameron-Martin space. It…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-23 John Karlsson , Jörg-Uwe Löbus

Firstly we consider a finite dimensional Markov semigroup generated by Dunkl laplacian with drift terms. Using gradient bounds we show that for small coefficients this semigroup has an invariant measure. We then extend this analysis to an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Andrei Velicu

We derive first-order (in the stepsize) bounds on the bias in Wasserstein distances of the invariant measure of stochastic gradient kinetic Langevin dynamics with minimal assumptions on the stochastic gradient noise. These bounds sharpen…

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We study weighted Helmholtz--Hodge decompositions of drift vector fields associated with second-order diffusion operators on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$. Given a decomposition of the form \[ \mathbf{G}=A\nabla\Phi+\mathbf{B}, \] we relate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Haesung Lee , Gerald Trutnau

We prove a sharp general inequality estimating the distance of two probability measures on a compact Lie group in the Wasserstein metric in terms of their Fourier transforms. We use a generalized form of the Wasserstein metric, related by…

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Motivated by the statistical and computational challenges of computing Wasserstein distances in high-dimensional contexts, machine learning researchers have defined modified Wasserstein distances based on computing distances between…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Jiaqi Xi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We study Brownian flows on manifolds for which the associated Markov process is strongly mixing with respect to an invariant probability measure and for which the distance process for each pair of trajectories is a diffusion $r$. We provide…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-02 Michael Cranston , Benjamin Gess , Michael Scheutzow

We study a system of drift-diffusion PDEs for a potentially infinite number of incompressible phases, subject to a joint pointwise volume constraint. Our analysis is based on the interpretation as a collection of coupled Wasserstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Clément Cancès , Daniel Matthes , Ismael Medina , Bernhard Schmitzer

We consider a stochastic functional differential equation with an arbitrary Lipschitz diffusion coefficient depending on the past. The drift part contains a term with superlinear growth and satisfying a dissipativity condition. We prove…

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