Abstract: We establish elliptic and parabolic Harnack inequalities on graphs with unbounded weights. As an application we prove a local limit theorem for a continuous time random walk X in an environment of ergodic random conductances taking values in (0,∞) satisfying some moment conditions.

Abstract: We consider Brownian motions with one-sided collisions, meaning that each particle is reflected at its right neighbour. For a finite number of particles a Schütz-type formula is derived for the transition probability. We investigate an infinite system with periodic initial configuration, i.e., particles are located at the integer lattice at time zero. The joint distribution of the positions of a finite subset of particles is expressed as a Fredholm determinant with a kernel defining a signed determinantal point process. In the appropriate large time scaling limit, the fluctuations in the particle positions are described by the Airy\(_1\) process.

Abstract: We prove existence and uniqueness of optimal maps on RCD∗(K,N) spaces under the assumption that the starting measure is absolutely continuous. We also discuss how this result naturally leads to the notion of exponentiation and to the local-to-global property of RCD∗(K,N) bounds.

Abstract: We give an L2 x L2 → L2 convolution estimate for singular measures supported on transversal hypersurfaces in ℝn, which improves earlier results of Bejenaru et al. as well as Bejenaru and Herr. The quantities arising are relevant to the study of the validity of bilinear estimates for dispersive partial differential equations. We also prove a class of global, nonlinear Brascamp–Lieb inequalities with explicit constants in the same spirit.

Abstract: The goal of this paper is twofold: we study metric measure spaces (X, d, m) with variable lower bounds for the Ricci curvature and we study pathwise coupling of Brownian motions. Given any lower semicontinuous function k : X → ℝ we introduce the curvature-dimension condition CD(k, ∞) which canonically extends the curvature-dimension condition CD(K, ∞) of Lott-Sturm-Villani for constant K ∈ R. For infinitesimally Hilbertian spaces we prove its equivalence to an evolution-variation inequality EVIk which in turn extends the EVIK-inequality of Ambrosio-Gigli-Savaré; its stability under convergence and its local-to-global property. For metric measure spaces with uniform lower curvature bounds K we prove that for each pair of initial distributions µ1, µ2 on X there exists a coupling , t ≥ 0, of two Brownian motions on X with the given initial distributions such that a.s.

Abstract: We revisit the anchored Toom interface and use KPZ scaling theory to argue that the interface fluctuations are governed by the Airy1 process with the role of space and time interchanged. There is no free parameter. The predictions are numerically well confirmed for space-time statistics in the stationary state. In particular the spatial fluctuations of the interface are given by the GOE edge distribution of Tracy and Widom.