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In this paper, the explicit expression of Onsager-Machlup action functional to degenerate stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion is derived provided the diffusion coeffcient and reference path satisfy some…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Shanqi Liu , Hongjun Gao

This paper investigates bifurcation phenomena and stability of most probable transition paths (MPTPs) in stochastic dynamical systems through a combined variational and spectral flow approach. Within the Onsager-Machlup framework, MPTPs are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Jinqiao Duan , Zhihao Zhao

This paper establishes an indirect approximation theorem for the most probable transition pathway of a stochastic interacting particle system in the mean-field framework. This paper studied the problem of indirect approximation of the most…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jianyu Chen , Ting Gao , Galina Strelkova , Jinqiao Duan

We describe a novel algorithm for rounding packing integer programs based on multidimensional Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Starting from an optimal fractional feasible solution $\bar{x}$, the procedure converges in polynomial time to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Sandeep Sen

Turbulence transition often arises from a subcritical transition between bistable states characterized by invariant sets of deterministic dynamical systems, and such transitions can be triggered by system noise as rare events. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Yoshiki Hiruta , Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto

We develop a path integral framework for determining most probable paths in a class of systems of stochastic differential equations with piecewise-smooth drift and additive noise. This approach extends the Freidlin-Wentzell theory of large…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Kaitlin Hill , Jessica Zanetell , John A Gemmer

The Onsager principle provides a variational route to the phenomenological equations of dissipative dynamics through the minimization of the Rayleighian. We develop a covariant formulation of the Onsager principle for active systems,…

The Onsager-Machlup (OM) functional is well-known for characterizing the most probable transition path of a diffusion process with non-vanishing noise. However, it suffers from a notorious issue that the functional is unbounded below when…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Qiang Du , Tiejun Li , Xiaoguang Li , Weiqing Ren

For sampling multiple pathways in a rugged energy landscape, we propose a novel action-based path sampling method using the Onsager-Machlup action functional. Inspired by the Fourier-path integral simulation of a quantum mechanical system,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiroshi Fujisaki , Motoyuki Shiga , Akinori Kidera

This work is a numerical experiment of stochastic motion of conservative Hamiltonian system or weakly damped Brownian particles. The objective is to prove the existence of path probability and to compute its values. By observing a large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-09 Lin Tongling , Pujos Cyril , Ou Congjie , Bi Wenping , Calvayrac Florent , Wang Qiuping A

According to a version of Donsker's theorem, geodesic random walks on Riemannian manifolds converge to the respective Brownian motion. From a computational perspective, however, evaluating geodesics can be quite costly. We therefore…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Simon Schwarz , Michael Herrmann , Anja Sturm , Max Wardetzky

For diffusive stochastic dynamics, the probability to observe any individual trajectory is vanishingly small, making it unclear how to experimentally validate theoretical results for ratios of path probabilities. We provide the missing link…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jannes Gladrow , Ulrich F. Keyser , R. Adhikari , Julian Kappler

This work is devoted to the investigation of the most probable transition path for stochastic dynamical systems driven by either symmetric $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy motion ($0<\alpha<1$) or Brownian motion. For stochastic dynamical systems…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Yuanfei Huang , Ying Chao , Shenglan Yuan , Jinqiao Duan

In this paper we extend recent developments in computational optimal transport to the setting of Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we show how to learn optimal transport maps from samples that relate probability distributions defined on…

This paper addresses the problem of estimating drift parameter of the Ornstein - Uhlenbeck type process, driven by the sum of independent standard and fractional Brownian motions. The maximum likelihood estimator is shown to be consistent…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Pavel Chigansky , Marina Kleptsyna

In this article we derive Talagrand's $T_2$ inequality on the path space w.r.t. the maximum norm for various stochastic processes, including solutions of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations with measurable drifts, backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Daniel Bartl , Ludovic Tangpi

The $L^p$ maximal inequalities for martingales are one of the classical results in the theory of stochastic processes. Here we establish the sharp moderate maximal inequalities for one-dimensional diffusion processes, which include the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Xian Chen , Yong Chen , Mumien Cheng , Chen Jia

We study the impact of Brownian noise on transitions between metastable equilibrium states in a stochastic ice sheet model. Two methods to accomplish different objectives are employed. The maximal likely trajectory by maximizing the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Athanasios Tsiairis , Pingyuan Wei , Ying Chao , Jinqiao Duan

We consider diffusion-like paths that are explored by a particle moving via a conservative force while being in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings. To probe rare transitions, we use the Onsager-Machlup (OM) functional as a path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-01 Patrick Malsom , Frank Pinski

We derive the path-integral representation of the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process driven by Riemann-Liouville fractional Gaussian noise, for both the subdiffusive and superdiffusive regimes. We express the corresponding action, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Bing Miao , Gleb Oshanin , Luca Peliti