Ismaël Bailleul
Kinetic Brownian motion in the diffeomorphism group of a closed Riemannian manifold
Abstract
In its simplest instance, kinetic Brownian in Rd is a C1 random path (mt, vt) with unit velocity vt a Brownian motion on the unit sphere run at speed a > 0. Properly time rescaled as a function of the parameter a, its position process converges to a Brownian motion in Rd as a tends to infinity. On the other side the motion converges to the straight line motion (= geodesic motion) when a goes to 0. Kinetic Brownian motion provides thus an interpolation between geodesic and Brownian flows in this setting. Think now about changing Rd for the diffeomorphism group of a fluid domain, with a velocity vector now a vector field on the domain. I will explain how one can prove in this setting an interpolation result similar to the previous one, giving an interpolation between Euler’s equations of incompressible flows and a Brownian-like flow on the diffeomorphism group.
Our speaker
Ismaël Bailleul is an associate professor at the Université de Rennes.
