Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift

Details Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift

2009-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2294v1

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Analysis of PDEs

15 pages, 1 figure

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Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a bounded domain and for $x\in\Omega$ let $\tau(x)$ be the expected exit time from $\Omega$ of a diffusing particle starting at $x$ and advected by an incompressible flow $u$. We are interested in the question which flows maximize $\|\tau\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}$, that is, they are most efficient in the creation of hotspots inside $\Omega$. Surprisingly, among all simply connected domains in two dimensions, the discs are the only ones for which the zero flow $u\equiv 0$ maximises $\|\tau\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}$. We also show that in any dimension, among all domains with a fixed volume and all incompressible flows on them, $\|\tau\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}$ is maximized by the zero flow on the ball.

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