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We prove convergence to equilibrium for solutions to the McKean-Vlasov (granular media) equation on the flat torus in a genuinely nonconvex setting. Our approach is based on a Wasserstein-{\L}ojasiewicz gradient inequality for the…

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The motion of rarefied gases for uniform shear flow at the kinetic level is governed by the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with a deformation force. In the paper we study the corresponding Cauchy problem with initial data of…

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We combine hydrodynamic and modulated energy techniques to study the large deviations of systems of particles with pairwise singular repulsive interactions and additive noise. Specifically, we examine periodic Riesz interactions indexed by…

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We consider in this work small random perturbations (of multiplicative noise type) of the gradient flow. We prove that under mild conditions, when the potential function is a Morse function with additional strong saddle condition, the…

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As an enhanced version of existing results on Kac's propagation of chaos, which describes the convergence of mean-field particle systems to a system of independent McKean-Vlasov particles as the number of particles tends to infinity, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Xiao-Yu Zhao

In this article, we prove the first quantitative uniform in time propagation of chaos for a class of systems of particles in singular repulsive interaction in dimension one that contains the Dyson Brownian motion. We start by establishing…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Arnaud Guillin , Pierre Le Bris , Pierre Monmarché

Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We address the long time behaviour of weakly interacting diffusive particle systems on the d-dimensional torus. Our main result is to show that, under certain regularity conditions, the weak error between the empirical distribution of the…

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This paper establishes a quantitative, uniform-in-time diffusion approximation for the joint law of a broad class of fully coupled multiscale stochastic systems. We derive a precise characterization of the limiting joint distribution as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Longjie Xie , Xicheng Zhang

We study the kinetic mean field Langevin dynamics under the functional convexity assumption of the mean field energy functional. Using hypocoercivity, we first establish the exponential convergence of the mean field dynamics and then show…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Fan Chen , Yiqing Lin , Zhenjie Ren , Songbo Wang

It has long been known that a uniform distribution of matter cannot produce a Poisson distribution of density fluctuations on very large scales $1/k > ct$ by the motion of discrete particles over timescale $t$. The constraint is part of…

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We study fluctuations of mean-field interacting particle systems around their McKean--Vlasov limit. Our main result provides a uniform-in-time quantitative central limit theorem for the fluctuation process, with convergence rate of order…

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Langevin dynamics has found a large number of applications in sampling, optimization and estimation. Preconditioning the gradient in the dynamics with the covariance - an idea that originated in literature related to solving estimation and…

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We are interested in how regular a transport velocity field must be in order to control Riesz-type commutators. Estimates for these commutators play a central role in the analysis of the mean-field limit and fluctuations for systems of…

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In this paper, we study the existence and pathwise uniqueness of strong solutions for jump-type McKean-Vlasov SDEs with irregular coefficients but uniform linear growth assumption. Moreover, the propagation of chaos and the convergence rate…

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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 establish an unexpected phenomenon of strong regularization along normal convergence on Wiener chaoses. For every sequence of chaotic random variables, convergence in law to the Gaussian distribution is upgraded to superconvergence: the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Ronan Herry , Dominique Malicet , Guillaume Poly

The study of passive scalar transport in a turbulent velocity field leads naturally to the notion of generalized flows which are families of probability distributions on the space of solutions to the associated ODEs, which no longer satisfy…

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We study the local convergence of diffusive mean-field systems, including Wasserstein gradient flows, min-max dynamics, and multi-species games. We establish exponential local convergence in $\chi^2$-divergence with sharp rates, under two…

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