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Wasserstein gradient flows on probability measures have found a host of applications in various optimization problems. They typically arise as the continuum limit of exchangeable particle systems evolving by some mean-field interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Sewoong Oh , Soumik Pal , Raghav Somani , Raghavendra Tripathi

We study the gradient flow of the potential energy on the infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold of spatial curves parametrized by the arc length, which models overdamped motion of a falling inextensible string. We prove existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We consider transition to strong turbulence in an infinite fluid stirred by a gaussian random force. The transition is {\bf defined} as a first appearance of anomalous scaling of normalized moments of velocity derivatives (dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Victor Yakhot , Diego Donzis

The steady, asymmetric and two-dimensional flow of viscous, incompressible micropolar fluid through a rectangular channel with a splitter (parallel to walls) was formulated and simulated numerically. The plane Poiseuille flow was considered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-10 Abuzar Abid Siddiqui

In the framework of the renormalization-group (RG) approach, critical phenomena can be investigated by studying the RG flow of multi-parameter $\Phi^4$ field theories with an $N$-component fundamental field, containing up to 4th-order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Ettore Vicari

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Lorenz Schabrun

This paper is the third in a series devoted to the development of a rigorous renormalisation group method for lattice field theories involving boson fields, fermion fields, or both. In this paper, we motivate and present a general approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Roland Bauerschmidt , David C. Brydges , Gordon Slade

We study renormalization group flows between six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) using their geometric realizations as singular limits of F-theory compactified on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-27 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

A natural geometry, arising from the embedding into a Hilbert space of the parametrised probability measure for a given lattice model, is used to study the symmetry properties of real-space renormalisation group (RG) flow. In the projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 D. C. Brody , A. Ritz

Statistical theory of turbulence in viscid incompressible fluid, described by the Navier-Stokes equation driven by random force, is reformulated in terms of scale-dependent fields $\mathbf{u}_a(x)$, defined as wavelet-coefficients of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-03 M. V. Altaisky , M. Hnatich , N. E. Kaputkina

The recent introduction of the gradient flow has provided a new tool to probe the dynamics of quantum field theories. The latest developments have shown how to use the gradient flow for the exploration of symmetries, and the definition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Luigi Del Debbio , Agostino Patella , Antonio Rago

We establish an exact equivalence between the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) and the Ricci flow modified by a potential-driven diffeomorphism. By reformulating the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation into an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ki-Seok Kim

We consider turbulence induced by an arbitrary forcing and derive turbulence amplitude and turbulent transport coefficients, first by using a quasi-linear theory and then by using a multi-scale renormalisation analysis. With an isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

The study of passive scalar transport in a turbulent velocity field leads naturally to the notion of generalized flows which are families of probability distributions on the space of solutions to the associated ODEs, which no longer satisfy…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Weinan E , Eric Vanden Eijnden

A modified gravitational theory is developed in which the gravitational coupling constants $G$ and $Q$ and the effective mass $m_\phi$ of a repulsive vector field run with momentum scale $k$ or length scale $\ell =1/k$, according to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-29 J. W. Moffat

The renormalization group flow of an integrable two dimensional quantum field theory which contains unstable particles is investigated. The analysis is carried out for the Virasoro central charge and the conformal dimensions as a function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 O. A. Castro-Alvaredo , A. Fring

First-order `Bogomol'nyi' equations are found for dilaton domain walls of D-dimensional gravity with the general dilaton potential admitting a stable anti-de Sitter vacuum. Implications for renormalization group flow in the holographically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kostas Skenderis , Paul K. Townsend

Large-$N$ renormalization group equations for one- and two-matrix models are derived. The exact renormalization group equation involving infinitely many induced interactions can be rewritten in a form that has a finite number of coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-25 Saburo Higuchi , Chigak Itoi , Shinsuke Nishigaki , Norisuke Sakai

Statistical model of strongly anisotropic fully developed turbulence of the weakly compressible fluid is considered by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. The corrections due to compressibility to the infrared form of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-11-22 N. V. Antonov , M. Hnatič , M. Yu. Nalimov

We establish a concrete correspondence between a gradient flow and the renormalization group flow for a generic scalar field theory. We use the exact renormalization group formalism with a particular choice of the cutoff function.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Hidenori Sonoda , Hiroshi Suzuki