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We prove that there exists a diffusion process whose invariant measure is the three dimensional polymer measure $\nu_\lambda$ for all $\lambda>0$. We follow in part a previous incomplete unpublished work of the first named author with M.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Sergio Albeverio , Seiichiro Kusuoka , Song Liang , Makoto Nakashima

We study barycenters in the space of probability measures on a Riemannian manifold, equipped with the Wasserstein metric. Under reasonable assumptions, we establish absolute continuity of the barycenter of general measures $\Omega \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

This paper connects nonpositive sectional curvature of a Riemannian manifold with the displacement convexity of the variance functional on the space $P(M)$ of probability measures over $M$. We show that $M$ has nonpositive sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

We study existence of probability measure valued jump-diffusions described by martingale problems. We develop a simple device that allows us to embed Wasserstein spaces and other similar spaces of probability measures into locally compact…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Martin Larsson , Sara Svaluto-Ferro

In this paper, we are concerned with long-time behavior of Euler-Maruyama schemes associated with a range of regime-switching diffusion processes. The key contributions of this paper lie in that existence and uniqueness of numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Jianhai Bao , Jinghai Shao , Chenggui Yuan

When propagating uncertainty in the data of differential equations, the probability laws describing the uncertainty are typically themselves subject to uncertainty. We present a sensitivity analysis of uncertainty propagation for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Oliver G. Ernst , Alois Pichler , Björn Sprungk

It is well known that nonlinear diffusion equations can be interpreted as a gradient flow in the space of probability measures equipped with the Euclidean Wasserstein distance. Under suitable convexity conditions on the nonlinearity, due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-13 François Bolley , José A. Carrillo

Let $\mu_N$ be the empirical measure associated to a $N$-sample of a given probability distribution $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We are interested in the rate of convergence of $\mu_N$ to $\mu$, when measured in the Wasserstein distance of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

We study distribution-on-distribution regression problems in which a response distribution depends on multiple distributional predictors. Such settings arise naturally in applications where the outcome distribution is driven by several…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-08 Yuanying Chen , Tongyu Li , Yang Bai , Zhenhua Lin

This paper explores the Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of the circle, namely $P(S^{1})$, the set of probability measures on the unit circle endowed with the 2-Wasserstein metric. Building on the foundational work of Otto,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

In this article we prove the existence of Bernstein processes which we associate in a natural way with a class of linear parabolic initial-and final boundary value problems defined in bounded convex subsets of Euclidean space of arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Pierre-A. Vuillermot , Jean-C. Zambrini

We determine the inner product on the Hilbert space of wavefunctions of the universe by imposing the Hermiticity of the quantum Hamiltonian in the context of the minisuperspace model. The corresponding quantum probability density reproduces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Alex Kehagias , Hervé Partouche , Nicolaos Toumbas

Given a connected compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ without boundary, $\dim M\ge 2$, we consider a space--time fractional diffusion equation with an interior source that is supported on an open subset $V$ of the manifold. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lauri Ylinen , Zhidong Zhang

For $p\in (1,\infty)$ let $\mathscr{P}_p(\mathbb{R}^3)$ denote the metric space of all $p$-integrable Borel probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^3$, equipped with the Wasserstein $p$ metric $\mathsf{W}_p$. We prove that for every…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Alexandr Andoni , Assaf Naor , Ofer Neiman

Consider a set of points sampled independently near a smooth compact submanifold of Euclidean space. We provide mathematically rigorous bounds on the number of sample points required to estimate both the dimension and the tangent spaces of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Uzu Lim , Harald Oberhauser , Vidit Nanda

This paper develops a rigorous probabilistic framework that extends denoising diffusion models to the setting of noncommutative random variables. Building on Voiculescu's theory of free entropy and free Fisher information, we formulate…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Swagatam Das

It is shown that under suitable regularity conditions, differential entropy is a Lipschitz functional on the space of distributions on $n$-dimensional Euclidean space with respect to the quadratic Wasserstein distance. Under similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Yury Polyanskiy , Yihong Wu

Riemannian diffusion models draw inspiration from standard Euclidean space diffusion models to learn distributions on general manifolds. Unfortunately, the additional geometric complexity renders the diffusion transition term inexpressible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Aaron Lou , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon

Starting from a sequence of independent Wright-Fisher diffusion processes on $[0,1]$, we construct a class of reversible infinite dimensional diffusion processes on $\DD_\infty:= \{{\bf x}\in [0,1]^\N: \sum_{i\ge 1} x_i=1\}$ with GEM…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-14 Shui Feng , Feng-Yu Wang

We obtain an estimate for the expected subspace robust Wasserstein distance between any probability measure on the unit ball of a separable Hilbert space, and its empirical distribution from $n$ i.i.d. samples.

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Dakshesh Vasan