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One proves the existence and uniqueness of a generalized (mild) solution for the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) \begin{align*} &u_t-\Delta (\beta(u))+{\mathrm{ div}}(D(x)b(u)u)=0, \quad t\geq0,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^d,\ d\ne2, \\…
We propose a general method to identify nonlinear Fokker--Planck--Kolmogorov equations (FPK equations) as gradient flows on the space of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a natural differential geometry. Our notion of gradient…
One proves the $H$-theorem for mild solutions to a nondegenerate, nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation $$ u_t-\Delta\beta(u)+{\rm div}(D(x)b(u)u)=0, \ t\geq0, \ x\in\mathbb{R}^d,\qquad (1)$$ and under appropriate hypotheses on $\beta,$ $D$ and…
We interpret a class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with reaction as gradient flows over the space of Radon measures equipped with the recently introduced Hellinger-Kantorovich distance. The driving entropy of the gradient flow is not…
One studies here, via the La Salle invariance principle for nonlinear semigroups in Banach spaces, the properties of the $\omega$-limit set $\omega(u_0)$ corresponding to the orbit $\gamma(u_0)=\{u(t,u_0);\ t\ge0\}$, where $u=u(t,u_0)$ is…
An operatorial based approach is used here to prove the existence and uniqueness of a strong solution $u$ to the time-varying nonlinear Fokker--Planck equation $u_t(t,x)-\Delta(a(t,x,u(t,x))u(t,x))+{\rm div}(b(t,x,u(t,x))u(t,x))=0$ in…
One proves in this work that the nonlinear semigroup $S(t)$ in $L^1(\mathbb R^d)$, $d\geq 3$, associated with the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation $u_t-\Delta\beta(u)+\text{div}(Db(u)u){=}0$, $u(0)=u_0$ in $(0,\infty)\times\mathbb R^d$,…
Existence and uniqueness of a strong solution in $H^{-1}(\mathbb R^d)$ is proved for the stochastic nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation $$dX-{\rm div}(DX)dt-\Delta\beta(X)dt=X\,dW \mbox{ in }(0,T)\times\mathbb R^d,\ X(0)=x,$$ via a…
In this manuscript we deal with a class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with the following structure \[ \partial_t u - \div\big(M\nabla u+ E h(u)\big)=0, \] with $M$ a bounded elliptic matrix, $E$ a vector field in a suitable Lebesgue…
We study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation on graphs, which is the gradient flow in the space of probability measures supported on the nodes with respect to the discrete Wasserstein metric. The energy functional driving the gradient flow…
The Fokker-Planck equation can be reformulated as a continuity equation, which naturally suggests using the associated velocity field in particle flow methods. While the resulting probability flow ODE offers appealing properties - such as…
The object of this paper is the uniqueness for a $d$-dimensional Fokker-Planck type equation with non-homogeneous (possibly degenerated) measurable not necessarily bounded coefficients. We provide an application to the probabilistic…
For the nonlinear Fokker--Planck equation $$\partial_tu = \Delta\beta(u)-\nabla \Phi \cdot \nabla \beta(u) - div_{\varrho}\big(D(x)b(u)u\big),\quad (t,x) \in (0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^d,$$ where $\varrho = \exp(-\Phi)$ is the density of a…
In this paper we establish gradient estimates for positive solutions to the nonlinear elliptic equation $$\Delta_{V}u^{m}+\mu(x)u+p(x)u^{\alpha}=0 , \quad m>1$$on any smooth metric measure space whose $k$-Bakry-\'{E}mery curvature is…
We consider the fractional unforced Burgers equation in the one-dimensional space-periodic setting: $$\partial u/\partial t+(f(u))_x +\nu \Lambda^{\alpha} u= 0, t \geq 0,\ \mathbb{x} \in \mathbb{T}^d=(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^d.$$ Here $f$ is…
Consider the Leibenson equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \Delta_p u^q, \end{equation*} where $\Delta_p f = div(|\nabla f|^{p-2}\nabla f)$ for $p>1$ and $q>0$, which is a simultaneous generalization of the porous media and the…
In this paper, we develop and analyze numerical methods for high dimensional Fokker-Planck equations by leveraging generative models from deep learning. Our starting point is a formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation as a system of…
We investigate blow-up phenomena for positive solutions of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations including a nonlinear convection term $\partial_t u = \Delta u - g(u) \cdot \nabla u + f(u)$ in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$ under the…
A time-fractional Fokker-Planck initial-boundary value problem is considered, with differential operator $u_t-\nabla\cdot(\partial_t^{1-\alpha}\kappa_\alpha\nabla u-\textbf{F}\partial_t^{1-\alpha}u)$, where $0<\alpha <1$. The forcing…
We consider a Fokker-Planck equation which is coupled to an externally given time-dependent constraint on its first moment. This constraint introduces a Lagrange-multiplier which renders the equation nonlocal and nonlinear. In this paper we…