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Fractional Brownian motion is a generalised Gaussian diffusive process that is found to describe numerous stochastic phenomena in physics and biology. Here we introduce a multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (FBM) defined as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Diffusion theory establishes a fundamental connection between stochastic differential equations and partial differential equations. The solution of a partial differential equation known as the Fokker-Planck equation describes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Carlos Escudero , Helder Rojas

Tracer tests in natural porous media sometimes show abnormalities that suggest considering a fractional variant of the Advection Diffusion Equation supplemented by a time derivative of non-integer order. We are describing an inverse method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Boris Maryshev , Alain Cartalade , Christelle Latrille , Marie-Christine Néel

This overview article concerns the notion of fractional smoothness of random variables of the form $g(X_T)$, where $X=(X_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$ is a certain diffusion process. We review the connection to the real interpolation theory, give…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-22 Stefan Geiss , Emmanuel Gobet

We study well-posedness of sweeping processes with stochastic perturbations generated by a fractional Brownian motion and convergence of associated numerical schemes. To this end, we first prove new existence, uniqueness and approximation…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Adrian Falkowski , Leszek Slominski

The process of diffusion is the most elementary stochastic transport process. Brownian motion, the representative model of diffusion, played a important role in the advancement of scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Alexandre Bovet

Existing deterministic variational inference approaches for diffusion processes use simple proposals and target the marginal density of the posterior. We construct the variational process as a controlled version of the prior process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Christian Wildner , Heinz Koeppl

In this paper we present numerical methods - finite differences and finite elements - for solution of partial differential equation of fractional order in time for one-dimensional space. This equation describes anomalous diffusion which is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski

The stochastic solution with Gaussian stationary increments is establihsed for the symmetric space-time fractional diffusion equation when $0 < \beta < \alpha \le 2$, where $0 < \beta \le 1$ and $0 < \alpha \le 2$ are the fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-18 Gianni Pagnini , Paolo Paradisi

In this paper, we study the recovery of the Hurst parameter from a given discrete sample of fractional Brownian motion with statistical inverse theory. In particular, we show that in the limit the posteriori distribution of the parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Lassi Päivärinta , Petteri Piiroinen

We introduce the stochastic process of incremental multifractional Brownian motion (IMFBM), which locally behaves like fractional Brownian motion with a given local Hurst exponent and diffusivity. When these parameters change as function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Jakub Slezak , Ralf Metzler

We present three schemes for the numerical approximation of fractional diffusion, which build on different definitions of such a non-local process. The first method is a PDE approach that applies to the spectral definition and exploits the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Andrea Bonito , Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

The main result of the present paper is a statement on existence, uniqueness and regularity for mild solutions to a parabolic transport diffusion type equation that involves a non-smooth coefficient. We investigate related Cauchy problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Elena Issoglio

We will consider the following stochastic differential equation (SDE): \begin{equation} X_t=X_0+\int_0^tb(X_s,\theta_0)ds+\sigma B_t,~~~t\in(0,T], \end{equation} where $\{B_t\}_{t\ge 0}$ is a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Yasutaka Shimizu , Shohei Nakajima

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

Modeling of phenomena such as anomalous transport via fractional-order differential equations has been established as an effective alternative to partial differential equations, due to the inherent ability to describe large-scale behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jorge Suzuki , Mamikon Gulian , Mohsen Zayernouri , Marta D'Elia

We consider the problem of statistical inference for the effective dynamics of multiscale diffusion processes with (at least) two widely separated characteristic time scales. More precisely, we seek to determine parameters in the effective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Sebastian Krumscheid , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis

Stochastic transport due to a velocity field modeled by the superposition of small-scale divergence free vector fields activated by Fractional Gaussian Noises (FGN) is numerically investigated. We present two non-trivial contributions: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-12 Paolo Cifani , Franco Flandoli

In the present article, we study the diffusion equations with fractional time derivatives. The aim of this paper is to investigate the best possible regularity for the initial value/boundary value problems with non-homogeneous Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Kenichi Fujishiro

Fractional diffusion equations are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion processes where the characteristic displacement scales as a power of time. For processes lacking such scaling the corresponding description may be given by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Sokolov , A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter
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