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Consider a finite irreducible Markov chain with invariant distribution $\pi$. We use the inner product induced by $\pi$ and the associated heat operator to simplify and generalize some results related to graph partitioning and the small-set…

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We explore the diffusion process in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal noise.%the escape rate problem in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal random noise. There is a non-trivial short memory regime, i.e., the Markovian limit characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takaaki Monnai , Ayumu Sugita , Katsuhiro Nakamura

An active Brownian particle is a minimal model for a self-propelled colloid in a dissipative environment. Experiments and simulations show that, in the presence of boundaries and obstacles, active Brownian particle systems approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge can be viewed as a continuous-time stochastic control problem where the goal is to find an optimally controlled diffusion process whose terminal distribution coincides with a pre-specified target distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-23 Jhanvi Garg , Xianyang Zhang , Quan Zhou

The method of potential solutions of Fokker-Planck equations is used to develop a transport equation for the joint probability of N coupled stochastic variables with the Dirichlet distribution as its asymptotic solution. To ensure a bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

The purpose of this paper is to consider the exit-time problem for a finite-range Markov jump process, i.e, the distance the particle can jump is bounded independent of its location. Such jump diffusions are expedient models for anomalous…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Nathanial Burch , Marta D'Elia , R. B. Lehoucq

Motivated by the long-time transport properties of quantum waves in weakly disordered media, the present work puts random Schr\"odinger operators into a new spectral perspective. Based on a stationary random version of a Floquet type…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Mitia Duerinckx , Christopher Shirley

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

The present work deals with the two-dimensional incompressible,laminar, steady-state boundary layer equations. First, we determinea family of velocity distributions outside the boundary layer suchthat these problems may have similarity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-08 Mohamed Guedda , Zakia Hammouch

In order to study linker-mediated aggregation of colloidal particles with limited valence, we combine kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and an approximate theory based on the Smoluchowski equations. We found that aggregation depends strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 J. M. Tavares , G. C. Antunes , C. S. Dias , M. M. Telo da Gama , N. A. M. Araújo

In the present work the classical problem of the kinetic theory of gases (the Smoluchowsky' problem about temperature jump in rarefied gas) is considered. The rarefied gas fills half-space over a flat firm surface. logarithmic gradient of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 A. V. Latyshev

The path integral approach to quantum mechanics requires a substantial generalisation to describe the dynamics of systems confined to bounded domains. Non-local boundary conditions can be introduced in Feynman's approach by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Asorey , J. Clemente-Gallardo , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

On a smooth bounded Euclidean domain, Sobolev-subcritical fast diffusion with vanishing boundary trace is known to lead to finite-time extinction, with a vanishing profile selected by the initial datum. In rescaled variables, we quantify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Beomjun Choi , Robert J. McCann , Christian Seis

We prove Feynman-Kac formulas for solutions to elliptic and parabolic boundary value and obstacle problems associated with a general Markov diffusion process. Our diffusion model covers several popular stochastic volatility models, such as…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Paul M. N. Feehan , Ruoting Gong , Jian Song

We consider a class of reaction-diffusion equations with a stochastic perturbation on the boundary. We show that in the limit of fast diffusion, one can rigorously approximate solutions of the system of PDEs with stochastic Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Wael W. Mohammed , Dirk Blömker

A version of fractional diffusion on bounded domains, subject to 'homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions' is derived from a kinetic transport model with homogeneous inflow boundary conditions. For nonconvex domains, the result differs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We study the existence and uniqueness of mild and strong solutions of nonlocal nonlinear diffusion problems of $p$-Laplacian type with nonlinear boundary conditions posed in metric random walk spaces. These spaces include, among others,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Marcos Solera , Julián Toledo

A general theory is developed to study individual based models which are discrete in time. We begin by constructing a Markov chain model that converges to a one-dimensional map in the infinite population limit. Stochastic fluctuations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Joseph D. Challenger , Duccio Fanelli , Alan J. McKane

This paper studies, in dimensions greater than two, stationary diffusion processes in random environment which are small, isotropic perturbations of Brownian motion satisfying a finite range dependence. Such processes were first considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Benjamin J. Fehrman

We consider the dynamics of systems with arbitrary friction and diffusion. These include, as a special case, systems for which friction and diffusion are connected by Einstein fluctuation-dissipation relation, e.g. Brownian motion. We study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr