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We present a framework, which, from the trajectories detailing the spatiotemporal dynamics of a population, simultaneously reconstructs a transport map as well as the Fokker-Planck equation governing the coarse-grained probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Saem Han , Krishna Garikipati

We examine the importance of second order corrections to linearized cosmological perturbation theory in an inflationary background, taken to be a spatially flat FRW spacetime. The full second order problem is solved in the sense that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

Using techniques from loop quantum gravity, the standard theory of cosmological perturbations was recently generalized to encompass the Planck era. We now apply this framework to explore pre-inflationary dynamics. The framework enables us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

An interacting scalar field with largish coupling to curvature can support a distinctive inflationary universe scenario. Previously this has been discussed for the Standard Model Higgs field, treated classically or in a leading log…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Andrea De Simone , Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

The new scheme of stochastic quantization is proposed. This quantization procedure is equivalent to the deformation of an algebra of observables in the manner of deformation quantization with an imaginary deformation parameter (the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-06-13 P. O. Kazinski

Though simple inflationary models describe the CMB well, their corrections are often plagued by infrared effects that obstruct a reliable calculation of late-time behaviour. We adapt to cosmology tools designed to address similar issues in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-30 C. P. Burgess , R. Holman , G. Tasinato

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A perturbative strategy for inflation described by two-inflaton fields is developed using a mathematical analogy with the renormalization-group. Two small quantities, $\alpha$ and $\lambda$, corresponding to standard slow-roll parameters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Bohdan Grzadkowski , Marco Piva

Systems out of equilibrium exhibit a net production of entropy. We study the dynamics of a stochastic system represented by a Master Equation that can be modeled by a Fokker-Planck equation in a coarse-grained, mesoscopic description. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Daniel M. Busiello , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

Anomalous diffusion and power-law distributions are observed in various complex systems. To provide a consistent dynamical foundation for these phenomena, we present a geometric derivation of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Hiroki Suyari

We investigate a driven, one-dimensional system of colloidal particles in a periodically currogated narrow channel subject to a time-delayed feedback control. Our goal is to identify conditions under which the control induces oscillatory,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Ken Lichtner , Andrey Pototsky , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The precision era of cosmology demands accurate theoretical predictions from inflationary models. In quantitative reheating analyses, inflationary observables depend sensitively on the number of e-folds between horizon exit and the end of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Debottam Nandi , Simran Yadav , Manjeet Kaur

We analyse the dynamics of spinodal decomposition in inflationary cosmology using the closed time path formalism of out of equilibrium quantum field theory combined with the non-perturbative Hartree approximation. In addition to a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Cormier , R. Holman

We present a model-based output-only method for identifying from time series the parameters governing the dynamics of stochastically forced oscillators. In this context, suitable models of the oscillator's damping and stiffness properties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-04 Edouard Boujo , Nicolas Noiray

In this paper we study second order stochastic differential equations with measurable and density-distribution dependent coefficients. Through establishing a maximum principle for kinetic Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Xicheng Zhang

Stochastic models of chemical systems are often analysed by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation which is a drift-diffusion partial differential equation for the probability distribution function. Efficient numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Simon L. Cotter , Tomas Vejchodsky , Radek Erban

Fluctuations play a critical role in cosmology. They are relevant across a range of phenomena from the dynamics of inflation to the formation of structure. In many cases, these fluctuations are coarse grained and follow a Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green , Akhil Premkumar

We consider higher-derivative quantum gravity where renormalization group improved effective action beyond one-loop approximation is derived. Using this effective action, the quantum-corrected FRW equations are analyzed. De Sitter universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-21 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Sergei Odintsov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

We revisit the time evolution of a flat and non-flat direction system during inflation. In order to take into account quantum noises in the analysis, we base on stochastic formalism and solve coupled Langevin equations numerically. We focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Masahiro Kawasaki , Tomohiro Takesako

We consider a generic class of stochastic particle-based models whose state at an instant in time is described by a set of continuous degrees of freedom (e.g. positions), and the length of this set changes stochastically in time due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Samuel Cameron , Elsen Tjhung