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We use mass-transportation as a tool to compare surfaces (2-manifolds). In particular, we determine the "similarity" of two given surfaces by solving a mass-transportation problem between their conformal densities. This mass transportation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Y. Lipman , I. Daubechies

The statement of the mean field approximation theorem in the mean field theory of Markov processes particularly targets the behaviour of population processes with an unbounded number of agents. However, in most real-world engineering…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Mahmoud Talebi , Jan Friso Groote , Jean-Paul Linnartz

This work originates from a heart's images tracking which is to generate an apparent continuous motion, observable through intensity variation from one starting image to an ending one both supposed segmented. Given two images p0 and p1, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Olivier Besson , Martine Picq , Jérôme Pousin

The problem of the time required for a diffusing molecule, within a large bounded domain, to first locate a small target is prevalent in biological modeling. Here we study this problem for a small spherical target. We develop uniform in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Samuel A. Isaacson , Jay Newby

We study the initial value problem of the Einstein-Dirac system, and show the stability of the Minkowski solution in the massless case with the use of generalized wave coordinates. This requires the understanding of the Dirac equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xuantao Chen

We consider the stochastic target problem of finding the collection of initial laws of a mean-field stochastic differential equation such that we can control its evolution to ensure that it reaches a prescribed set of terminal probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Bruno Bouchard , Boualem Djehiche , Idris Kharroubi

The time-fractional optimal transport (OT) and mean-field planning (MFP) models are developed to describe the anomalous transport of the agents in a heterogeneous environment such that their densities are transported from the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Yiqun Li , Hong Wang , Wuchen Li

In the context of mean field games, with possible control of the diffusion coefficient, we consider a path-dependent version of the planning problem introduced by P.L. Lions: given a pair of marginal distributions $(\mu_0, \mu_1)$, find a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi , Junjian Yang

Techniques from numerical bifurcation theory are very useful to study transitions between steady fluid flow patterns and the instabilities involved. Here, we provide computational methodology to use parameter continuation in determining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 S. Baars , J. P. Viebahn , T. E. Mulder , C. Kuehn , F. W. Wubs , H. A. Dijkstra

We develop transportation-entropy inequalities which are saturated for measures such that their log-density with respect to the background measure is an affine function, in the setting of the uniform measure on the discrete hypercube and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Fanny Augeri

We study a multi-agent mean field type control problem in discrete time where the agents aim to find a socially optimal strategy and where the state and action spaces for the agents are assumed to be continuous. The agents are only weakly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Erhan Bayraktar , Nicole Bauerle , Ali Devran Kara

We demonstrate an iterative scheme to approximate the optimal transportation problem with a discrete target measure under certain standard conditions on the cost function. Additionally, we give a finite upper bound on the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Jun Kitagawa

We show the existence of self-similar solutions with constant finite mass to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation for all spatial dimensions $d \ge 1$ and all exponents $m>m_c=(d-2)_+/d$. This range is optimal. We find two types of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 David Gómez-Castro , Łukasz Płociniczak , Juan Luis Vázquez

In this paper, we address the problem of modeling the traffic flow of a heritage city whose streets are represented by a network. We consider a mean field approach where the standard forward backward system of equations is also intertwined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro , Raffaele Pesenti

Optimal transport maps and plans between two absolutely continuous measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ can be approximated by solving semi-discrete or fully-discrete optimal transport problems. These two problems ensue from approximating $\mu$ or both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We consider a mean-field control problem in which admissible controls are required to be adapted to the common noise filtration. The main objective is to show how the mean-field control problem can be approximates by time consistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

The driven transport of plastic systems in various disordered backgrounds is studied within mean field theory. Plasticity is modeled using non-convex interparticle potentials that allow for phase slips. This theory most naturally describes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Saunders , J. M. Schwarz , M. Cristina Marchetti , A. Alan Middleton

We study the kinetic mean-field limits of the discrete systems of interacting particles used for halftoning of images in the sense of continuous-domain quantization. Under mild assumptions on the regularity of the interacting kernels we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Massimo Fornasier , Jan Haskovec , Gabriele Steidl

We study the problem of transporting one probability measure to another via an autonomous velocity field. We rely on tools from the theory of optimal transport. In one space-dimension, we solve a linear homogeneous functional equation to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Nicola De Nitti , Xavier Fernández-Real

We are concerned with the long time behaviour of solutions to the fractional porous medium equation with a variable spatial density. We prove that if the density decays slowly at infinity, then the solution approaches the Barenblatt-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Gabriele Grillo , Matteo Muratori , Fabio Punzo