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We introduce a Benamou-Brenier formulation for the continuous-time martingale optimal transport problem as a weak length relaxation of its discrete-time counterpart. By the correspondence between classical martingale problems and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Martin Huesmann , Dario Trevisan

We develop a functional analytic approach to the study of the Kramers and kinetic Fokker-Planck equations which parallels the classical $H^1$ theory of uniformly elliptic equations. In particular, we identify a function space analogous to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 D. Albritton , S. Armstrong , J. -C. Mourrat , M. Novack

In this paper we revisit a class of optimal transport problems associated to non-autonomous linear control systems. Building on properties of the cost functions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}\times\mathbb{R}^{d}$ derived from suitable variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Amit Einav , Yue Jiang , Alpár R. Mészáros

The Fokker-Planck equation describing the transport of energetic particles interacting with turbulence is difficult to solve analytically. Numerical solutions are of course possible but they are not always useful for applications. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

One of the crucial features of optimal transport on Riemannian manifolds is the equivalence of the `static', original, formulation of the problem and of the `dynamic' one, based on the study of the continuity equation. This furnishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Nicola Gigli , Felix Rott , Matteo Zanardini

A quadratic optimal transport metric on the set of probability measure over $\R^2$ is introduced. The quadratic cost is given by the euclidean norm on $\R^2$ associated to some well chosen symmetric positive matrix, which makes the metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Samir Salem

We prove existence and uniqueness results for solutions to a class of optimal transportation problems with infinitely many marginals, supported on the real line. We also provide a characterization of the solution with an explicit formula.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Brendan Pass

We study some jumping SDE and the corresponding Fokker-Planck (or Kolmogorov forward) equation, which is a non-local PDE. We assume only some measurability and growth conditions on the coefficients. We prove that for any weak solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Nicolas Fournier , Liping Xu

The goal of this paper is to study weak solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation. We first discuss existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in an irregular context, providing a unified treatment of the available literature along with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Paolo Bonicatto , Gennaro Ciampa , Gianluca Crippa

The existence and uniqueness of measure-valued solutions to stochastic nonlinear, non-local Fokker-Planck equations is proven. This type of stochastic PDE is shown to arise in the mean field limit of weakly interacting diffusions with…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Michele Coghi , Benjamin Gess

In this paper, we propose a refinement strategy to the well-known Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the concept of Optimal Transport (OT). Conventional black-box PINNs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Vaishnav Tadiparthi , Raktim Bhattacharya

In this paper we study the dynamics of a fast-slow Fokker-Planck partial differential equation (PDE) viewed as the evolution equation for the density of a multiscale planar stochastic differential equation (SDE). Our key focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach

The Fokker-Planck Equation, applied to transport processes in fusion plasmas, can model several anomalous features, including uphill transport, scaling of confinement time with system size, and convective propagation of externally induced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-05 D. F. Escande , F. Sattin

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

The optimal weak transport problem has recently been introduced by Gozlan et.\ al. We provide general existence and duality results for these problems on arbitrary Polish spaces, as well as a necessary and sufficient optimality criterion in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Julio Backhoff Veraguas , Mathias Beiglboeck , Gudmund Pammer

In this contribution we propose an optimally stable ultraweak Petrov-Galerkin variational formulation and subsequent discretization for stationary reactive transport problems. The discretization is exclusively based on the choice of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Lukas Renelt , Christian Engwer , Mario Ohlberger

Optimal transport problems pose many challenges when considering their numerical treatment. We investigate the solution of a PDE-constrained optimisation problem subject to a particular transport equation arising from the modelling of image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Roland Herzog , John W. Pearson , Martin Stoll

We have previously shown an analysis of our dimer model in the over-damped regime to show directed transport in equilibrium. Here we analyze the full model with inertial terms present to establish the same result. First we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-16 A. Bhattacharyay

We prove the Duality Theorems for the stochastic optimal transportation problems with a convex cost function without a regularity assumption that is often supposed in the proof of the lower semicontinuity of an action integral. In our new…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Toshio Mikami
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