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In the early 1930's, Erwin Schroedinger, motivated by his quest for a more classical formulation of quantum mechanics, posed a large deviation problem for a cloud of independent Brownian particles. He showed that the solution to the problem…

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We present the random behaviour of the Schr\"odinger map equation, a geometric partial differential equation, by considering its evolution for regular polygonal curves in both Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces. The results obtained are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Sandeep Kumar

For the first time, a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation of the general form is considered, depending on time and two spatial variables, the potential and dispersion of which are specified by two arbitrary functions. This equation naturally…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Andrei D. Polyanin

The Schr{\"o}dinger problem is an entropy minimisation problem on the space of probability measures. Its optimal value is a cost between two probability measures. In this article we investigate some regularity properties of this cost:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Gauthier Clerc

In this paper we study the following class of fractional relativistic Schr\"odinger equations: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta+m^{2})^{s}u + V(\varepsilon x) u= f(u) &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, \\ u\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Vincenzo Ambrosio

We develop a general mathematical framework for variational problems where the unknown function assumes values in the space of probability measures on some metric space. We study weak and strong topologies and define a total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Thomas Vogt , Jan Lellmann

This article is aimed at presenting the Schr\"odinger problem and some of its connections with optimal transport. We hope that it can be used as a basic user's guide to Schr\"odinger problem. We also give a survey of the related literature.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Christian Léonard

In this paper, we consider the following logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation \[ -\Delta u + V(x)u = u \log u^{2},\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}. \] Assuming that \(V\in C(\mathbb{R}^{N},\mathbb R)\), \(V\) is bounded away from zero, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Chen Huang , Zhipeng Yang

Erwin Schroedinger posed, and to a large extent solved in 1931/32 the problem of finding the most likely random evolution between two continuous probability distributions. This article considers this problem in the case when only samples of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Michele Pavon , Esteban G Tabak , Giulio Trigila

We provide a unifying interpretation of various optimal transport problems as a minimisation of a linear functional over the set of all Choquet representations of a given pair of probability measures ordered with respect to a certain convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

This paper is concerned with six variational problems and their mutual connections: The quadratic Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, the Schr\"odinger problem, Brenier's relaxed model for incompressible fluids, the so-called Br\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Aymeric Baradat , Léonard Monsaingeon

We introduce a framework to consider transport problems for integer-valued random variables. We introduce weighting coefficients which allow us to characterize transport problems in a gradient flow setting, and form the basis of our…

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We consider variational problem related to entropy maximization in the two-dimensional Euler equations, in order to investigate the long-time dynamics of solutions with bounded vorticity. Using variations on the classical min-max principle…

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The optimal transport problem has recently developed into a powerful framework for various applications in estimation and control. Many of the recent advances in the theory and application of optimal transport are based on regularizing the…

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In the framework of the nonsmooth critical point theory for lower semi-continuous functionals, we propose a direct variational approach to investigate the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for a class of semi-linear elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Pietro d'Avenia , Eugenio Montefusco , Marco Squassina

We consider elliptic equations of Schr\"odinger type with a right-hand side fixed and with the linear part of order zero given by a potential V . The main goal is to study the optimization problem for an integral cost depending on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado-díaz , Faustino Maestre

In this paper, we introduce an inverse problem of a Schr\"odinger type variable nonlocal elliptic operator $(-\nabla\cdot(A(x)\nabla))^{s}+q)$, for $0<s<1$. We determine the unknown bounded potential $q$ from the exterior partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Tuhin Ghosh , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jingni Xiao

We consider parabolic Schr\"odinger type equations associated to fractional powers of uniformly elliptic 2m-order operators with constant coefficients. Potentials and initial data are considered in suitable Morrey spaces. By means of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Jan W. Cholewa , Anibal Rodriguez-Bernal

We consider the problem to identify the most likely flow in phase space, of (inertial) particles under stochastic forcing, that is in agreement with spatial (marginal) distributions that are specified at a set of points in time. The…

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