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Under Lyapunov and monotone conditions, the exponential ergodicity in the induced Wasserstein quasi-distance is proved for a class of fully non-dissipative McKean-Vlasov SDEs, which strengthen some recent results established under…

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A constitutive theory for weak viscoelastic nematodynamics of Maxwell type is developed using the standard local approach of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Along with particular viscoelastic and nematic kinematics, the theory uses the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkady I. Leonov , Valery S. Volkov

We provide a general steady-state diffusion approximation result which bounds the Wasserstein distance between the reversible measure $\mu$ of a diffusion process and the measure $\nu$ of an approximating Markov chain. Our result is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Thomas Bonis

We study a class of one-dimensional particle systems with true (Bird type) binary interactions, which includes Kac's model of the Boltzmann equation and nonlinear equations for the evolution of wealth distribution arising in kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Roberto Cortez , Joaquin Fontbona

We use Stein's method to bound the Wasserstein distance of order $2$ between a measure $\nu$ and the Gaussian measure using a stochastic process $(X_t)_{t \geq 0}$ such that $X_t$ is drawn from $\nu$ for any $t > 0$. If the stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Thomas Bonis

Behavioural conformances -- e.g. behavioural equivalences, distances, preorders -- on a wide range of system types (non-deterministic, probabilistic, weighted etc.) can be dealt with uniformly in the paradigm of universal coalgebra. One of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Paul Wild , Lutz Schröder

This work introduces a general framework for establishing the long time accuracy for approximations of Markovian dynamical systems on separable Banach spaces. Our results illuminate the role that a certain uniformity in Wasserstein…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Cecilia F. Mondaini

In this paper, we present a rigorous derivation of a new kinetic equation describing the limiting behavior of a classical system of particles with three particle elastic instantaneous interactions, which are modeled using a non-symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Natasa Pavlovic

In this paper, we establish the evolution variational inequality for the weighted Wasserstein distance, without assuming convexity of domains. Thanks to this evolution variational inequality, we can carry out some arguments with weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Kyogo Murai

We theoretically analyze the properties of a geodesic random walk on the Euclidean $d$-sphere. Specifically, we prove that the random walk's transition kernel is Wasserstein contractive with a contraction rate which can be bounded from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Philip Schär , Thilo D. Stier

Based on a new coupling approach, we prove that the transition step of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm is contractive w.r.t. a carefully designed Kantorovich (L1 Wasserstein) distance. The lower bound for the contraction rate is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Andreas Eberle , Raphael Zimmer

In this paper, we deal with a class of time-homogeneous continuous-time Markov processes with transition probabilities bearing a nonparametric uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled by considering perturbations of the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Sven Fuhrmann , Michael Kupper , Max Nendel

Using the 1D Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak model as an example, we develop numerical experiments to study the validity of the Wave Kinetic Equation (WKE) at the kinetic limit (i.e., small nonlinearity and large domain). We show that the dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-18 Alexander Hrabski , Yulin Pan

Since the pioneering work of Maxwell and Boltzmann in the 1860s and 1870s, a major challenge in mathematical physics has been the derivation of macroscopic evolution equations from the fundamental microscopic laws of classical or quantum…

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In this paper, around a global smooth irrotational solution to the classical isentropic compressible Euler-Poisson system, we construct classical solutions to the one-species relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system on any finite time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yong Wang , Hang Xiong , Hongyao Zhang

We show that with a small modification, the formulation of the Einstein equations of Uggla et al, which uses tetrad variables normalised by the expansion, is a mixed symmetric hyperbolic/parabolic system. Well-posedness of the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Garfinkle , Carsten Gundlach

We study the contraction in Wasserstein distance of the coordinate ascent variational inference algorithm. This is shown to hold under a transport-information inequality at the fixed points and a functional smoothness condition. The results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Rocco Caprio , Adrien Corenflos , Sam Power

The closest tensors of higher symmetry classes are derived in explicit form for a given elasticity tensor of arbitrary symmetry. The mathematical problem is to minimize the elastic length or distance between the given tensor and the closest…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Maher Moakher , Andrew N. Norris

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

In this paper, we present a critical collection of essential mathematical tools and techniques for the analysis of Boltzmann-type kinetic equations, which in recent years have established themselves as a flexible and powerful paradigm to…

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