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The inhomogeneous distribution of matter in the non-linear regime of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and voids is described by an exact, spherically symmetric inhomogeneous solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, corresponding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. W. Moffat

Swelling media (e.g. gels, tumors) are usually described by mechanical constitutive laws (e.g. Hooke or Darcy laws). However, constitutive relations of real swelling media are not well known. Here, we take an opposite route and consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Pierre Degond , Marina A. Ferreira , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Mickaël Nahon

We formulate a class of velocity-free finite-particle methods for mass transport problems based on a time-discrete incremental variational principle that combines entropy and the cost of particle transport, as measured by the Wasserstein…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Anna Pandolfi , Laurent Stainier , Michael Ortiz

We prove a quantitative result of convergence of a conservative stochastic particle system to the solution of the homogeneous Landau equation for hard potentials. There are two main difficulties: (i) the known stability results for this…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

We derive a family of similarity solutions to the nonlinear non-equilibrium Marshak wave problem for an inhomogeneous planar medium which is coupled to a time dependent radiation driving source. We employ the non-equilibrium gray diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-25 Nitay Derei , Shmuel Balberg , Shay I. Heizler , Elad Steinberg , Ryan G. McClarren , Menahem Krief

We establish a dimension-free, uniform-in-time reverse transportation inequality for Langevin dynamics with non-convex potentials. This inequality controls the R\'enyi divergence of arbitrary order between the process distributions starting…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jianfeng Lu , Yuliang Wang

The paper introduces a general framework for derivation of continuum equations governing meso-scale dynamics of large particle systems. The balance equations for spatial averages such as density, linear momentum, and energy were previously…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Alexander Panchenko , Lyudmyla L. Barannyk , Kevin Cooper

We establish a log-Sobolev inequality for the stationary distribution of mean-field Langevin dynamics with a constant that is independent of the number of particles $N$. Our proof proceeds by establishing the existence of a Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Sinho Chewi , Atsushi Nitanda , Matthew S. Zhang

We propose a new probabilistic characterization of the uniform distribution on the hypersphere in terms of the distribution of pairwise inner products, extending the ideas of \citep{cuesta2009projection,cuesta2007sharp} in a data-driven…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tiefeng Jiang , Tuan Pham

We investigate the emergence of non-linear diffusivity in kinetically constrained, one-dimensional symmetric exclusion processes satisfying the gradient condition. Recent developments introduced new gradient dynamics based on the Bernstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-18 G. S. Nahum

This paper analyzes a full discretization of a three-dimensional stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with multiplicative noise. The discretization combines the Euler scheme for temporal approximation and the finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Binjie Li , Qin Zhou

This paper develops an analytical method of truncating inequality constrained Gaussian distributed variables where the constraints are themselves described by Gaussian distributions. Existing truncation methods either assume hard…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Andrew W. Palmer , Andrew J. Hill , Steven J. Scheding

The transport of single-phase fluid mixtures in porous media is described by cross-diffusion equations for the mass densities. The equations are obtained in a thermodynamic consistent way from mass balance, Darcy's law, and the van der…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Ansgar Jüngel , Jiří Mikyška , Nicola Zamponi

Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) minimizes an entropy-regularized nonlinear convex functional defined over the space of probability distributions. MFLD has gained attention due to its connection with noisy gradient descent for mean-field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Atsushi Nitanda

We study a nonlocal adhesion model for two interacting tumor cell phenotypes, combining diffusion, pairwise interactions, and random phenotypic switching. The system admits a microscopic diffusion--jump particle description whose mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Myeongju Chae , Young-Pil Choi

We consider moving particles in media with nonlinear friction and drive them by an asymmetric dichotomic Markov process. Due to different energy dissipations, during the forward and backward stroke, we obtain a mean non-vanishing directed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-18 Gökan Cebiroglu , Christian Weber , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Group-invariant probability distributions appear in many data-generative models in machine learning, such as graphs, point clouds, and images. In practice, one often needs to estimate divergences between such distributions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Stefanie Jegelka

The multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution (MGGD), also known as the multivariate exponential power (MEP) distribution, is widely used in signal and image processing. However, estimating MGGD parameters, which is required in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-13 Nora Ouzir , Frédéric Pascal , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

An initial-and boundary-value problem for the Kelvin-Voigt system, modeling a mixture of n incompressible and viscoelastic fluids, with non-constant density, is investigated in this work. The existence of global-in-time weak solutions is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 S. N. Antontsev , H. B. de Oliveira , I. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Prokudin , Kh. Khompysh

We consider transport in two billiard models, the infinite horizon Lorentz gas and the stadium channel, presenting analytical results for the spreading packet of particles. We first obtain the cumulative distribution function of traveling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Lior Zarfaty , Alexander Peletskyi , Eli Barkai , Sergey Denisov
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