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Since a few years, the Schr\"odinger problem captures the attention of a growing community of mathematicians interested in optimal transport problems. The first result of existence of a solution to this problem dates back to 1940, when…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Christian Léonard

We study the stability of entropically regularized optimal transport with respect to the marginals. Given marginals converging weakly, we establish a strong convergence for the Schr\"odinger potentials describing the density of the optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Marcel Nutz , Johannes Wiesel

We investigate the Calder\'on problem for the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with drift, proving that the unknown drift and potential in a bounded domain can be determined simultaneously and uniquely by an infinite number of exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Mihajlo Cekić , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Angkana Rüland

Previously we found a unique quantum system with a positive gauge-invariant Weyl-Stratonovich quasi-probability density function which can be defined by the so-called {\guillemotleft}quadratic funnel{\guillemotright} potential [Phys. Rev. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , A. S. Medvedev

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

We propose a variational formulation of an inverse problem in continuous-time stochastic control, aimed at identifying control costs consistent with a given distribution over trajectories. The formulation is based on minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Yumiharu Nakano

This paper addresses the Optimal Transport problem, which is regularized by the square of Euclidean $\ell_2$-norm. It offers theoretical guarantees regarding the iteration complexities of the Sinkhorn--Knopp algorithm, Accelerated Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Michael Persiianov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Contraction properties of transport maps between probability measures play an important role in the theory of functional inequalities. The actual construction of such maps, however, is a non-trivial task and, so far, relies mostly on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Dan Mikulincer , Yair Shenfeld

We show convergence of the gradients of the Schr\"odinger potentials to the Brenier map in the small-time limit under general assumptions on the marginals, which allow for unbounded densities and supports. Furthermore, we provide novel…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Alberto Chiarini , Giovanni Conforti , Giacomo Greco , Luca Tamanini

We consider several inverse problems for elliptic equations whose coefficients are random, without imposing a special probabilistic structure on the randomness. The main body treats the Schr\"odinger equation. We compare what can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Cătălin I. Cârstea

We review the derivation of quantum theory as an application of entropic methods of inference. The new contribution in this paper is a streamlined derivation of the Schr\"odinger equation based on a different choice of microstates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ariel Caticha

In this article we study a variational problem providing a way to extend for all times minimizing geodesics connecting two given probability measures, in the Wasserstein space. This is simply obtained by allowing for negative coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Thomas O. Gallouët , Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

Schr\"odinger bridges have emerged as an enabling framework for unveiling the stochastic dynamics of systems based on marginal observations at different points in time. The terminology "bridge'' refers to a probability law that suitably…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-05 Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Asmaa Eldesoukey , Tryphon T. Georgiou

This is the second part of a two-paper series studying the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with quasi-periodic initial data. In this paper, we focus on the quasi-periodic Cauchy problem for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 David Damanik , Yong Li , Fei Xu

For the first time, the general nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is investigated, in which the chromatic dispersion and potential are specified by two arbitrary functions. The equation in question is a natural generalization of a wide class…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-12-03 Andrei D. Polyanin , Nikolay A. Kudryashov

A principle is proposed according to which the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional configuration space (OCS) is determined by a variational problem for two functionals: one is based on the mean value of the Hamilton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 N. L. Chuprikov

We develop a calculus of variations for functionals which are defined on a set of non differentiable curves. We first extend the classical differential calculus in a quantum calculus, which allows us to define a complex operator, called the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jacky Cresson

We establish the existence of a solution to a nonlinear competitive Schr\"odinger system whose scalar potential tends to a positive constant at infinity with an appropriate rate. This solution has the property that all components are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Mónica Clapp , Alberto Saldaña , Mayra Soares , Víctor A. Vicente-Benítez

We studied the Benamou--Brenier formulation of the Schr\"odinger problem, focusing on a gap between theoretical results and applications, that often involve measures with unbounded support. While the existing proof in the literature relies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mattia Garatti , Luca Nenna , Simona Rota Nodari , Luca Tamanini

We propose a nonlinear modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation that possesses the main properties of this equation such as the Galilean invariance, the weak separability of composite systems, and the homogeneity in the wave function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Waldemar Puszkarz