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In this paper, we develop an operator splitting scheme for the fractional kinetic Fokker-Planck equation (FKFPE). The scheme consists of two phases: a fractional diffusion phase and a kinetic transport phase. The first phase is solved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Manh Hong Duong , Yulong Lu

We consider a system of Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equations, where the dependence of the coefficients is nonlinear and nonlocal in time with respect to the unknowns. We extend the numerical scheme proposed and studied recently by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

The Fokker-Planck equation has been very useful for studying dynamic behavior of stochastic differential equations driven by Gaussian noises. However, there are both theoretical and empirical reasons to consider similar equations driven by…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schertzer , M. Larchevêque , J. Duan , V. V. Yanovsky , S. Lovejoy

With some transformations, we convert the problem of option pricing under state-dependent volatility into an initial value problem of the Fokker-Planck equation with a certain potential. By using the Lie symmetry analysis and similarity…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-19 Wenqing Bao , ChunLi Chen , Jin E. Zhang

We discuss a recent application of the Modified Homotopy Perturbation Method to the Fokker--Planck equation and show that the selected examples do not have any connection with actual physical problems.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Francisco M. Fernández

The Fokker-Planck equation has been very useful for studying dynamic behavior of stochastic differential equations driven by Gaussian noises. In this paper, we derive a Fractional Fokker--Planck equation for the probability distribution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 D. Schertzer , M. Larchev , J. Duan , V. V. Yanovsky , S. Lovejoy

In this paper we present a direct perturbative method to solving certain Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and some small parameters in the drift coefficients. The method makes use of the connection between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Choon-Lin Ho , Yan-Min Dai

The use of operator methods of algebraic nature is shown to be a very powerful tool to deal with different forms of relativistic wave equations. The methods provide either exact or approximate solutions for various forms of differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Dattoli , E. Sabia , K. Górska , A. Horzela , K. A. Penson

A supersymmetric method for the construction of so-called conditionally exactly solvable quantum systems is reviewed and extended to classical stochastic dynamical systems characterized by a Fokker-Planck equation with drift. A class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Junker

We study Brownian motion driven with both conservative and nonconservative external forces. By using the thermodynamic approach of the theory of Brownian motion we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation and derive expressions for the Fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Perez-Madrid , I. Santamaria-Holek

A tracking type optimal control problem for a nonlinear and nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck equation which arises as the mean field limit of an interacting particle systems that is subject to distance dependent random fluctuations is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

Variational methods are employed in situations where exact Bayesian inference becomes intractable due to the difficulty in performing certain integrals. Typically, variational methods postulate a tractable posterior and formulate a lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Nikolaos Gianniotis , Christoph Schnörr , Christian Molkenthin , Sanjay Singh Bora

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process may be used to generate a noise signal with a finite correlation time. If a one-dimensional stochastic process is driven by such a noise source, it may be analysed by solving a Fokker-Planck equation in two…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael Wilkinson

Following Feynman's treatment of the non-relativistic polaron problem, similar techniques are used to study relativistic field theories: after integrating out the bosonic degrees of freedom the resulting effective action is formulated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Rosenfelder , C. Alexandrou , A. W. Schreiber

Fractional calculus provides a rigorous mathematical framework to describe anomalous stochastic processes by generalizing the notion of classical differential equations to their fractional-order counterparts. By introducing the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Ehsan Kharazmi , Mohsen Zayernouri

We present a computational alternative to probabilistic simulations for non-smooth stochastic dynamical systems that are prevalent in engineering mechanics. As examples, we target (1) stochastic elasto-plastic problems, which involve…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Laurent Mertz , Georg Stadler , Jonathan Wylie

Non-Gaussian L\'evy noises are present in many models for understanding underlining principles of physics, finance, biology and more. In this work, we consider the Fokker-Planck equation(FPE) due to one-dimensional asymmetric L\'evy motion,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Xiao Wang , Wenpeng Shang , Xiaofan Li , Jinqiao Duan , Yanghong Huang

Here, we introduce a numerical approach for a class of Fokker-Planck (FP) equations. These equations are the adjoint of the linearization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. Using this structure, we show how to transfer the properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Adriano Festa , Diogo A. Gomes , Roberto M. Velho

We design a variational asymptotic preserving scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system with the high field scaling, which describes the Brownian motion of a large system of particles in a surrounding bath. Our scheme builds on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Jose A. Carrillo , Li Wang , Wuzhe Xu , Ming Yan

We consider three classes of linear non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equations having a unique steady state and establish exponential convergence of solutions towards the steady state with explicit (estimates of) decay rates. First,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Dominik Stürzer