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In this article we investigate hypocoercivity of Langevin-type dynamics in nonlinear smooth geometries. The main result stating exponential decay to an equilibrium state with explicitly computable rate of convergence is rooted in an…
We characterize the measurement complexity of compressed sensing of signals drawn from a known prior distribution, even when the support of the prior is the entire space (rather than, say, sparse vectors). We show for Gaussian measurements…
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The following type exponential convergence is proved for (non-degenerate or degenerate) McKean-Vlasov SDEs: $$W_2(\mu_t,\mu_\infty)^2 +{\rm Ent}(\mu_t|\mu_\infty)\le c {\rm e}^{-\lambda t} \min\big\{W_2(\mu_0, \mu_\infty)^2,{\rm…
We address the long time behavior of solutions of the stochastic Korteweg-de Vries equation $ du + (\partial^3_x u +u\partial_x u +\lambda u)dt = f dt+\Phi dW_t$ on ${\mathbb R}$ where $f$ is a deterministic force. We prove that the Feller…
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