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We study mean-field particle approximations of normalized Feynman-Kac semi-groups, usually called Fleming-Viot or Feynman-Kac particle systems. Assuming various large time stability properties of the semi-group uniformly in the initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Lucas Journel , Mathias Rousset

This paper focuses on finding an approximate solution of a kind of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent perturbations. A formulation of the approximate solution of the equation is constructed, and then the existence of the formulation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Yan Luo , Kaicheng Sheng

We study the implications of quantum fluctuations of a dispersive medium, under steady rotation, either in or out of thermal equilibrium with its environment. A rotating object exhibits a quantum instability by dissipating its mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Robert L. Jaffe , Mehran Kardar

The optimization of the usual entropy $S_1[p]=-\int du p(u) ln p(u)$ under appropriate constraints is closely related to the Gaussian form of the exact time-dependent solution of the Fokker-Planck equation describing an important class of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Constantino Tsallis , Dirk Jan Bukman

We study the kinetic mean-field limits of the discrete systems of interacting particles used for halftoning of images in the sense of continuous-domain quantization. Under mild assumptions on the regularity of the interacting kernels we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Massimo Fornasier , Jan Haskovec , Gabriele Steidl

This article introduces a novel approach to the mean-field limit of stochastic systems of interacting particles, leading to the first ever derivation of the mean-field limit to the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system for plasmas in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Didier Bresch , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Juan Soler

Aims. The process of pitch-angle isotropization is important for many applications ranging from diffusive shock acceleration to large-scale cosmic-ray transport. Here, the basic analytical description is revisited on the basis of recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 R. C. Tautz

The mean-field approximations of many-boson dynamics are known to be effective in many physical relevant situations. The mathematical justifications of such approximations rely generally on specific considerations which depend too much on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Clément Rouffort

We study mean field games with unbounded coefficients. The existence of a solution is proved. We propose a new approach based on Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations, the Ambrosio-Figalli-Trevisan superposition principle, the method of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Stanislav V. Shaposhnikov , Dmitry V. Shatilovich

We study a system of Fokker-Planck equations recently introduced to describe the temporal evolution of statistical distributions of population densities with predator-prey interactions. At the macroscopic level, the system recovers a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We develop a quantum relative entropy method for the mean-field limit of quantum many-body systems. For closed systems governed by the von Neumann equation, we prove a quantitative stability estimate between the $N$-body density matrix and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Gaoyue Guo , Hao Liang , Zhenfu Wang

The stochastic approach aims at describing the long-wavelength part of quantum fields during inflation by a classical stochastic theory. It is usually formulated in terms of Langevin equations, giving rise to a Fokker-Planck equation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Lucas Pinol , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Yuichiro Tada

A Fokker-Planck type equation for interacting particles with exclusion principle is analysed. The nonlinear drift gives rise to mathematical difficulties in controlling moments of the distribution function. Assuming enough initial moments…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-21 José A. Carrillo , Philippe Laurençot , Jesús Rosado

Context. Spacecraft observations have motivated the need for a refined description of the phase-space distribution function. Of particular importance is the pitch-angle diffusion coefficient that occurs in the Fokker-Planck transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-27 R. C. Tautz , A. Dosch , F. Effenberger , H. Fichtner , A. Kopp

Fractional Fokker-Planck equation plays an important role in describing anomalous dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, the existing discussions mainly focus on this kind of equation involving one diffusion operator. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

We improve the standard theory of collisional stellar systems by considering the presence of a continuous mass distribution. The calculus of the diffusion coefficients is generalized and a new expression of the Fokker-Planck equation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-20 Marco Merafina , Matteo Teodori

In this work, we explore both the ordinary $q$-Gaussian distribution and a new one defined here, determining both their mean and variance, and we use them to construct solutions of the $q$-deformed diffusion differential equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Won Sang Chung , L. M. Nieto , Soroush Zare , Hassan Hassanabadi

Fokker-Planck equation with the velocity-dependent coefficients is considered for various isotropic systems on the basis of probability transition (PT) approach. This method provides the self-consistent and universal description of friction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Trigger

We discuss a general class of nonlinear mean-field Fokker-Planck equations [P.H. Chavanis, Phys. Rev. E, 68, 036108 (2003)] and show their applications in different domains of physics, astrophysics and biology. These equations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A theoretical framework is developed for the phenomenon of non-Gaussian normal diffusion that has experimentally been observed in several heterogeneous systems. From the Fokker-Planck equation with the dynamical structure with largely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sumiyoshi Abe