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Previous work has shown the effectiveness of random walk hitting times as a measure of dissimilarity in a variety of graph-based learning problems such as collaborative filtering, query suggestion or finding paraphrases. However,…

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The Hybrid Mimetic Mixed (HMM) family of discretisations includes the Hybrid Finite Volume method, the Mimetic Finite Difference method and the Mixed Finite Volume method. This note demonstrates that HMM discretisations of the equations…

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This paper introduces a stabilized finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard cross-diffusion model, which is characterized by strongly coupled mobilities, nonlinear diffusion, and complex cross-diffusion terms. These features pose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Boyi Wang , Naresh Kumar , Jinyun Yuan

A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to time-fractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. The main focus is on achieving optimal error results with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Kassem Mustapha

In this work we consider a simple random walk embedded in a generic branched structure and we find a close-form formula to calculate the hitting time $H\left(i,f\right)$ between two arbitrary nodes $i$ and $j$. We then use this formula to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Elena Agliari , Fabio Sartori , Luca Cattivelli , Davide Cassi

We introduce a unified framework for solving first passage times of time-homogeneous diffusion processes. According to the killed version potential theory and the perturbation theory, we are able to deduce closed-form solutions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Angelos Dassios , Luting Li

This paper proposes a frequency-time hybrid solver for the time-dependent wave equation in two-dimensional interior spatial domains. The approach relies on four main elements, namely, 1) A multiple scattering strategy that decomposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Oscar P. Bruno , Tao Yin

Despite its generality and powerful convergence properties, Milstein's method for functionals of spatially bounded stochastic differential equations is widely regarded as difficult to implement. This has likely prevented it from being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Francisco Bernal

Generating samples from a probability distribution is a fundamental task in machine learning and statistics. This article proposes a novel scheme for sampling from a distribution for which the probability density $\mu({\bf x})$ for ${\bf…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-22 Hanwen Huang

We derive expressions for the first three moments of the decision time (DT) distribution produced via first threshold crossings by sample paths of a drift-diffusion equation. The "pure" and "extended" diffusion processes are widely used to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-26 Vaibhav Srivastava , Philip Holmes , Patrick Simen

We consider the problem of Arnold's diffusion for nearly integrable isochronous Hamiltonian systems. We prove a shadowing theorem which improves the known estimates for the diffusion time. We also justify for three time scales systems that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Berti , Philippe Bolle

We present an exact expression for the mean exit time through the cap of a confining sphere for particles alternating phases of surface and of bulk diffusion. The present approach is based on an integral equation which can be solved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-16 J. -F. Rupprecht , O. Bénichou , D. S. Grebenkov , R. Voituriez

The problem of mass diffusion in layered systems has relevance to applications in different scientific disciplines, e.g., chemistry, material science, soil science, and biomedical engineering. The mathematical challenge in these type of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Oded Farago

When the unconditioned process is a diffusion submitted to a space-dependent killing rate $k(\vec x)$, various conditioning constraints can be imposed for a finite time horizon $T$. We first analyze the conditioned process when one imposes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-01 Alain Mazzolo , Cécile Monthus

Particles confined to a single file, in a narrow quasi-one dimensional channel, exhibit a dynamic crossover from single file diffusion to Fickian diffusion as the channel radius increases and the particles can begin to pass each other. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-27 Sheida Ahmadi , Richard K. Bowles

We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Harald Garcke , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

Single-file diffusion behaves as normal diffusion at small time and as anomalous subdiffusion at large time. These properties can be described by fractional Brownian motion with variable Hurst exponent or multifractional Brownian motion. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

In this study, we introduce a novel method for generating new synthetic samples that are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) from high-dimensional real-valued probability distributions, as defined implicitly by a set of Ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-09 Hamidreza Behjoo , Michael Chertkov

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

Diffusion of molecules within biological cells and tissues is strongly influenced by crowding. A key quantity to characterize diffusion is the particle lifetime, which is the time taken for a diffusing particle to exit by hitting an…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Elliot J Carr , Matthew J Simpson