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Euclidean random matching in 2D for non-constant densities
We consider the 2-dimensional random matching problem in In a
challenging paper, Caracciolo et. al. arXiv:1402.6993 on the basis of a subtle
linearization of the Monge Ampere equation, conjectured that the expected value
of the square of the Wasserstein distance, with exponent between two
samples of uniformly distributed points in the unit square is plus corrections, while the expected value of the square of the Wasserstein
distance between one sample of uniformly distributed points and the uniform
measure on the square is . These conjectures has been proved by
Ambrosio et al. arXiv:1611.04960.
Here we consider the case in which the points are sampled from a non uniform
density. For first we give formal arguments leading to the conjecture that if
the density is regular and positive in a regular, bounded and connected domain
in the plane, then the leading term of the expected values of the
Wasserstein distances are exactly the same as in the case of uniform density,
but for the multiplicative factor equal to the measure of .
We do not prove these results but, in the case in which the domain is a
square, we prove estimates from above that coincides with the conjectured
result.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
A gradient flow approach to linear Boltzmann equations
We introduce a gradient flow formulation of linear Boltzmann equations. Under
a diffusive scaling we derive a diffusion equation by using the machinery of
gradient flows
Dephasing of Kuramoto oscillators in kinetic regime towards a fixed asymptotically free state
We study the kinetic Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators. We prove that
for any regular asymptotically free state, if the interaction is small enough,
it exists a solution which is asymptotically close to it. For this class of
solution the order parameter vanishes to zero, showing a behavior similar to
the phenomenon of Landau damping in plasma physics. We obtain an exponential
decay of the order parameter in the case on analytical regularity of the
asymptotic state, and a polynomial decay in the case of Sobolev regularity
On the complete phase synchronization for the Kuramoto model in the mean-field limit
We study the Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators. For the case of
identical natural frequencies, we give a new proof of the complete frequency
synchronization for all initial data; extending this result to the continuous
version of the model, we manage to prove the complete phase synchronization for
any non-atomic measure-valued initial datum. We also discuss the relation
between the boundedness of the entropy and the convergence to an incoherent
state, for the case of non identical natural frequencies
Language Trees and Zipping
In this letter we present a very general method to extract information from a
generic string of characters, e.g. a text, a DNA sequence or a time series.
Based on data-compression techniques, its key point is the computation of a
suitable measure of the remoteness of two bodies of knowledge. We present the
implementation of the method to linguistic motivated problems, featuring highly
accurate results for language recognition, authorship attribution and language
classification.Comment: 5 pages, RevTeX4, 1 eps figure. In press in Phys. Rev. Lett. (January
2002
On The Weak-Coupling Limit for Bosons and Fermions
In this paper we consider a large system of Bosons or Fermions. We start with
an initial datum which is compatible with the Bose-Einstein, respectively
Fermi-Dirac, statistics. We let the system of interacting particles evolve in a
weak-coupling regime. We show that, in the limit, and up to the second order in
the potential, the perturbative expansion expressing the value of the
one-particle Wigner function at time , agrees with the analogous expansion
for the solution to the Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation. This paper follows in
spirit the companion work [\rcite{BCEP}], where the authors investigated the
weak-coupling limit for particles obeying the Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics:
here, they proved a (much stronger) convergence result towards the solution of
the Boltzmann equation
An invariant region for the collisional dynamics of two bodies on Keplerian orbits
We study the dynamics of two bodies moving on elliptic Keplerian orbits around a fixed center
of attraction and interacting only by means of elastic or inelastic collisions. We show that
there exists a bounded invariant region: for suitable values of the total energy and the total angular
momentum (explicitly computable) the orbits of the bodies remain elliptic,
whatever are the number and the details of the collisions.
The invariant region exists also in the case of two bodies interacting by
short range potential
Exponential dephasing of oscillators in the Kinetic Kuramoto Model
We study the kinetic Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators with
coupling constant below the synchronization threshold.
We manage to prove that,
for any analytic initial datum, if the
interaction is small enough, the order parameter of the model
vanishes exponentially fast, and
the solution is asymptotically described by a free flow.
This behavior is similar to the phenomenon of Landau damping in
plasma physics.
In the proof we use a combination of techniques from Landau damping
and from abstract Cauchy-Kowalewskaya theorem
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