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Let $X$ be a vector field and $Y$ be a co-vector field on a smooth manifold $M$. Does there exist a smooth Riemannian metric $g_{\alpha \beta}$ on $M$ such that $Y_\beta = g_{\alpha \beta} X^\alpha$? The main result of this note gives…

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In this article, we will first introduce a class of Gaussian processes, and prove the quasi-invariant theorem with respect to the Gaussian Wiener measure, which is the law of the associated Gaussian process. In particular, it includes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Qinpin Chen , Jian Sun , Bo Wu

We discuss certain recent mathematical advances, mainly due to Perelman, in the theory of Ricci flows and their relevance for renormalization group (RG) flows. We consider nonlinear sigma models with closed target manifolds supporting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 T Oliynyk , V Suneeta , E Woolgar

We develop an approach to the theory of relativistic geometric flows and emergent gravity defined by entropy functionals and related statistical thermodynamics models. Nonholonomic deformations of G. Perelman's functionals and related…

General Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev , Laurenţiu Bubuianu

In [8], the gradient conjecture of R. Thom was proven for gradient flows of analytic functions on Rn. This result means that the secant at a limit point converges, so that the flow cannot spiral forever. Once the trajectory becomes…

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Consider a probability measure on a Hilbert space defined via its density with respect to a Gaussian. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that an appropriately defined Markov chain, which is reversible with respect to the measure in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Natesh S. Pillai , Andrew M. Stuart , Alexandre H. Thiery

We derive the main equations of irreversible thermodynamic including the expression for the Glansdorff-Prigogine extremal principle from stochastic thermodynamics. To this end, we analyze a system that is subject to gradients of temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

The defining equation $(\ast):\ \dot \omega\_t=-F'(\omega\_t),$ of a gradient flow is kinetic in essence. This article explores some dynamical (rather than kinetic) features of gradient flows (i) by embedding equation $(\ast)$ into the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Ivan Gentil , Christian Léonard , Luigia Ripani

The General Equation for Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC) provides structure of mesoscopic multiscale dynamics that guarantees emergence of equilibrium states. Similarly, a lift of the GENERIC structure to iterated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Ogul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

We prove local Poincar\'e inequalities under various curvature-dimension conditions which are stable under the measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. The first class of spaces we consider is that of weak CD(K,N) spaces as defined by Lott…

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In dually flat manifolds, there is a deep connection between gradient flows and pregeodesics. This was one of the many important contributions of Amari to information geometry. In this paper, we extend the study of this relationship to…

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This is a sequel to our paper `On the kernel learning problem'. We identify a canonical choice of Riemannian gradient flow, to find the stationary points in the kernel learning problem. In the presence of Gaussian noise variables, this flow…

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As a consequence of the Bochner formula for the Bismut connection acting on gradients, we show sharp universal Poincar\'e and log-Sobolev inequalities along solutions to generalized Ricci flow. Using the two-form potential we define a…

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Based on the covariant underdamped and overdamped Langevin equations with Stratonovich coupling to multiplicative noises and the associated Fokker-Planck equations on Riemannian manifold, we present the first law of stochastic…

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The incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equation is known to govern the hydrodynamic limit of essentially any fluid and its rich non-linear structure has critical implications in both mathematics and physics. The employability of the methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Shounak De , Sumit Dey , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We provide gradient flow interpretations for the continuous-time continuous-state Hopfield neural network (HNN). The ordinary and stochastic differential equations associated with the HNN were introduced in the literature as analog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Abhishek Halder , Kenneth F. Caluya , Bertrand Travacca , Scott J. Moura

We construct stochastic gradient flows on the $2$-Wasserstein space $\mathcal P_2$ over $\mathbb R^d$ for energy functionals of the type $W_F(\rho d x)=\int_{\mathbb R^d}F(x,\rho(x))d x$. The functions $F$ and $\partial_2 F$ are assumed to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Panpan Ren , Michael Röckner , Feng-Yu Wang , Simon Wittmann

This paper introduces assignment flows for density matrices as state spaces for representing and analyzing data associated with vertices of an underlying weighted graph. Determining an assignment flow by geometric integration of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Jonathan Schwarz , Jonas Cassel , Bastian Boll , Martin Gärttner , Peter Albers , Christoph Schnörr

We are concerned with a mixture of Boltzmann and McKean-Vlasov type equations, this means (in probabilistic terms) equations with coefficients depending on the law of the solution itself,and driven by a Poisson point measure with the…

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