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We construct several examples related to the scaling limits of energy minimizers and gradient flows of surface energy functionals in heterogeneous media. These include both sharp and diffuse interface models. The focus is on two separate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-09 William M Feldman , Peter S Morfe

We consider the directed mean curvature flow on the plane in a weak Gaussian random environment. We prove that, when started from a sufficiently flat initial condition, a rescaled and recentred solution converges to the Cole-Hopf solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Andris Gerasimovics , Martin Hairer , Konstantin Matetski

As the limit equations of mean-field particle systems perturbed by common environmental noise, the McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations with common noise have received a lot of attention. Moreover, past dependence is an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Xing Chen , Xiaoyue Li , Chenggui Yuan

We show that the dynamics of disordered charge density waves (CDWs) and spin density waves (SDWs) is a collective phenomenon. The very low temperature specific heat relaxation experiments are characterized by: (i) ``interrupted'' ageing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mélin , K. Biljakovic , J. C. Lasjaunias , P. Monceau

Motivated by the possibility of noise to cure equations of finite-time blowup, recent work arXiv:2109.09892 by the second and third named authors showed that with quantifiable high probability, random diffusion restores global existence for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Shrey Aryan , Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani

Motivated by a probabilistic approach to Kahler-Einstein metrics we consider a general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics model in Euclidean space consisting of the stochastic gradient flow of a given (possibly singular) quasi-convex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Onnheim

We prove the convergence of an implicit time discretization for the one-phase Mullins-Sekerka equation, possibly with additional non-local repulsion, proposed in [F. Otto, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 141 (1998) 63--103]. Our simple argument…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Antonin Chambolle , Tim Laux

In this paper, we prove pathwise uniqueness for stochastic systems of McKean-Vlasov type with singular drift, even in the measure argument, and uniformly non-degenerate Lipschitz diffusion matrix. Our proof is based on Zvonkin's…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Paul-Eric Chaudru de Raynal

This paper studies the clustering behavior of weakly interacting diffusions under the influence of sufficiently localized attractive interaction potentials on the one-dimensional torus. We describe how this clustering behavior is closely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Nicolai Gerber , Rishabh S. Gvalani , Martin Hairer , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , André Schlichting

Based on a coupling approach, we prove uniform in time propagation of chaos for weakly interacting mean-field particle systems with possibly non-convex confinement and interaction potentials. The approach is based on a combination of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Alain Durmus , Andreas Eberle , Arnaud Guillin , Raphael Zimmer

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Daniel Adams , Gonçalo dos Reis , Romain Ravaille , William Salkeld , Julian Tugaut

We provide expansions of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field for motion along arbitrary, planar accelerated trajectories in Schwarzschild spacetime. We transcribe these results into mode-sum regularization parameters, computing previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Anna Heffernan , Adrian C. Ottewill , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arthur Stéphanovitch

We quantify, uniformly over time and with high probability, the discrepancy between the predictions of a two-layer neural network trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and their mean-field limit, for quadratic loss and ridge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arnaud Guillin , Boris Nectoux , Paul Stos

We establish the gradient flow representation of diffusion with mobility $b$ with respect to the modified Wasserstein quasi-metric $W_h$, where $h(r)=rb(r)$. The appropriate selection of the free energy functional depends on the specific…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Zhenxin Liu , Xuewei Wang

This paper is devoted to the study of mean-field limit for systems of indistinguables particles undergoing collision processes. As formulated by Kac \cite{Kac1956} this limit is based on the {\em chaos propagation}, and we (1) prove and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-19 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

The paper Brauchart, Hardin and Saff [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 41(4) (2009)] gives the complete asymptotic expansions of the Riesz $s$-energy of the $N$th roots of unity which form a universally optimal distribution of points on the unit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-10 J. S. Brauchart

We consider a class of optimization problems on the space of probability measures motivated by the mean-field approach to studying neural networks. Such problems can be solved by constructing continuous-time gradient flows that converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Petra Lazić , Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka

We prove the optimal rate of quantitative propagation of chaos, uniformly in time, for interacting diffusions. Our main examples are interactions governed by convex potentials and models on the torus with small interactions. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Daniel Lacker , Luc Le Flem

We study the high-frequency limit of non-autonomous gradient flows in metric spaces of energy functionals comprising an explicitly time-dependent perturbation term which might oscillate in a rapid way, but fulfills a certain Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Simon Plazotta , Jonathan Zinsl