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We prove propagation of chaos at explicit polynomial rates in Wasserstein distance W_2 for Kac's N-particle system associated with the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules, with and without cutoff. Our approach is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Roberto Cortez , Joaquin Fontbona

In this paper we study Kac's 1D particle system, consisting of the velocities of $N$ particles colliding at constant rate and randomly exchanging energies. We prove uniform (in time) propagation of chaos in Wasserstein distance with…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Roberto Cortez

Gibbs sampling also known as Glauber dynamics is a popular technique for sampling high dimensional distributions defined on graphs. Of special interest is the behavior of Gibbs sampling on the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph G(n,d/n). While…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-14 Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly

We present a provably safe sampling-based motion planning algorithm for robotic systems affected by random disturbances of unknown distribution. We consider systems with linear or linearizable dynamics evolving in workspace with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ibon Gracia , Qi Heng Ho , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

A popular method for sampling from high-dimensional distributions is the \emph{Gibbs sampler}, which iteratively resamples sites from the conditional distribution of the desired measure given the values of the other coordinates. It is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jason Gaitonde , Elchanan Mossel

We consider the problem of generating uniformly random partitions of the vertex set of a graph such that every piece induces a connected subgraph. For the case where we want to have partitions with linearly many pieces of bounded size, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

Polynomial chaos is a powerful technique for propagating uncertainty through ordinary and partial differential equations. Random variables are expanded in terms of orthogonal polynomials and differential equations are derived for the…

Computation · Statistics 2014-06-18 José Miguel Pasini , Tuhin Sahai

Using ultrashort laser pulses, it has become possible to probe the dynamics of long-range order in solids on microscopic timescales. In the conventional description of symmetry-broken phases within time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-08 Antonio Picano , Francesco Grandi , Martin Eckstein

We consider slow-fast systems of differential equations, in which both the slow and fast variables are perturbed by noise. When the deterministic system admits a uniformly asymptotically stable slow manifold, we show that the sample paths…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nils Berglund , Barbara Gentz

A R\"ossler model perturbed with a piecewise constant function is investigated. The perturbation function used in the model is constructed by means of the logistic map. In the absence of the perturbation the system is assumed to possess two…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-24 Mehmet Onur Fen , Fatma Tokmak Fen

Polynomial chaos based methods enable the efficient computation of output variability in the presence of input uncertainty in complex models. Consequently, they have been used extensively for propagating uncertainty through a wide variety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Tuhin Sahai

In finite-dimensional, chaotic, Lorenz-like wave-particle dynamical systems one can find diffusive trajectories, which share their appearance with that of laminar chaotic diffusion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 074101 (2022)] known from delay…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 David Müller-Bender , Rahil N. Valani , Günter Radons

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasserstein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bahar Taşkesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn , Karthik Natarajan

We provide a general bound on the Wasserstein distance between two arbitrary distributions of sequences of Bernoulli random variables. The bound is in terms of a mixing quantity for the Glauber dynamics of one of the sequences, and a simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Gesine Reinert , Nathan Ross

The hardcore model is a fundamental probabilistic model extensively studied in statistical physics, probability theory, and computer science. For graphs of maximum degree $\Delta$, a well-known computational phase transition occurs at the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xiaoyu Chen , Zejia Chen , Zongchen Chen , Yitong Yin , Xinyuan Zhang

In the study of subdiffusive wave-packet spreading in disordered Klein-Gordon (KG) nonlinear lattices, a central open question is whether the motion continues to be chaotic despite decreasing densities, or tends to become quasi-periodic as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Chris G. Antonopoulos , Charalampos Skokos , Tassos Bountis , Sergej Flach

A new Wasserstein multi-element polynomial chaos expansion (WPCE) is proposed, which is inspired by recent advances in computational optimal transport for estimating Wasserstein distances. The developed method combines unsupervised learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Robert Gruhlke , Martin Eigel

We study discrete statistical mechanics systems perturbed by a random environment without a finite second moment. Specifically, we consider a random environment whose tail distribution satisfies $P[\omega > x] \sim x^{-\gamma}$ as $x \to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Gaspard Gomez

In this paper, we first investigate the well-posedness of a backward stochastic differential equation where the driver depends on the law of the solution conditioned to a common noise. Under standard assumptions, we show that existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Remi Moreau

In the large-$N$, classical limit, the Bose-Hubbard dimer undergoes a transition to chaos when its tunnelling rate is modulated in time. We use exact and approximate numerical simulations to determine the features of the dynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 R. A. Kidd , M. K. Olsen , J. F. Corney
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