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This paper examines an averaging technique applied to the transport equations as an alternative to vanishing viscosity. Such techniques have been shown to be valid shock-regularizations of the Burgers equation and the Euler equations, but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-08 John Villavert , Kamran Mohseni

The aim of this work is to establish the well-posedness of fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) posed on a star-shaped network, having nonlinear Kirchhoff's boundary condition at the vertex, and possibly degenerate. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Isaac Ohavi

We prove optimal regularity and a detailed analysis of the free boundary of the solutions to the thin obstacle problem for nonparametric minimal surfaces with flat obstacles.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

We study the regularity of the viscosity solution to the fully nonlinear parabolic thin obstacle problem. In particular, we prove that the solution is local $H^{1+\alpha}$ on each side of the smooth obstacle, for some small $\alpha>0.$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Xi Hu , Lin Tang

We prove existence of a unique global-in-time weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations that govern the motion of a compressible viscous fluid with density-dependent viscosity in two-dimensional space. The initial velocity belongs to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Sagbo Marcel Zodji

We study analogs of value functions arising in classical mechanics in the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein metric $W_p$, for $1<p<\infty$. Our main result is that each of these generalized value functions is a type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Ryan Hynd , Hwa Kil Kim

We introduce a notion of viscosity solutions for a general class of elliptic-parabolic phase transition problems. These include the Richards equation, which is a classical model in filtration theory. Existence and uniqueness results are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Inwon C. Kim , Norbert Pozar

In this paper, we study the $m$-states optimal switching problem in finite horizon, when the switching cost functions are arbitrary and can be positive or negative. This has an economic incentive in terms of central evaluation in cases…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Brahim El Asri , Imade Fakhouri

This paper discusses a class of combinatorial optimization problems with uncertain costs in the objective function. It is assumed that a sample of the cost realizations is available, which defines an empirical probability distribution for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Marcel Jackiewicz , Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

Making sense of Wasserstein distances between discrete measures in high-dimensional settings remains a challenge. Recent work has advocated a two-step approach to improve robustness and facilitate the computation of optimal transport, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 François-Pierre Paty , Marco Cuturi

This paper provides an overview of the recently developed notion of viscosity solutions of path-dependent partial di erential equations. We start by a quick review of the Crandall- Ishii notion of viscosity solutions, so as to motivate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Zhenjie Ren , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

We consider the Cauchy problem for incompressible viscoelastic fluids in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=2,3$). By introducing a new decomposition via Helmholtz's projections, we first provide an alternative proof on the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Xianpeng Hu , Hao Wu

On the space of probability densities, we extend the Wasserstein geodesics to the case of higher-order interpolation such as cubic spline interpolation. After presenting the natural extension of cubic splines to the Wasserstein space, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Jean-David Benamou , Thomas Gallouët , François-Xavier Vialard

Inspired by recent works on the threshold dynamics scheme for multi-phase mean curvature flow (by Esedo\={g}lu-Otto and Laux-Otto), we introduce a novel framework to approximate solutions of the Muskat problem with surface tension. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Matt Jacobs , Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

The geodesic problem in Wasserstein spaces with a metric perturbed by a conformal factor is considered, and necessary optimality conditions are estabilished in a case where this conformal factor favours the spreading of the probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Filippo Santambrogio

In this work, we ask and answer the question: when is the viscosity of a fluid uniquely determined from spatially sparse measurements of its velocity field? We pose the question mathematically as an optimization problem using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Animikh Biswas , Joshua Hudson

In this note, we provide a unified framework for the mean square stability of stochastic jump linear systems via optimal transport. The Wasserstein metric known as an optimal transport, that assesses the distance between probability density…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Kooktae Lee , Abhishek Halder , Raktim Bhattacharya

Wasserstein projections in the convex order were first considered in the framework of weak optimal transport, and found application in various problems such as concentration inequalities and martingale optimal transport. In dimension one,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Benjamin Jourdain , William Margheriti , Gudmund Pammer

We utilise a form for the Hubble parameter to generate a number of solutions to the Einstein field equations with variable cosmological constant and variable gravitational constant in the presence of a bulk viscous fluid. The Hubble law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Anirudh Pradhan , Aotemshi I

We study the modeling of a compressible two-phase flow in a porous medium. The governing free boundary problem is known as the Verigin problem with phase transition. We introduce a novel variational framework to construct weak solutions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Anna Kubin , Tim Laux , Alice Marveggio