Publications and highlights associated with Benjamin Gess.
Accepted / forthcoming · Annals of Applied Probability. The dynamical large deviations principle for the three-dimensional incompressible Landau-Lifschitz-Navier-Stokes equations is shown, in the joint scaling regime of vanishing noise intensity and correlation length. This proves the consistency of the large…
Published · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 379 (2026) 4, pp. 2343-2383. The stochastic thin-film equation with mobility exponent $n\in [\frac{8}{3},3)$ on the one-dimensional torus with multiplicative Stratonovich noise is considered. We show that martingale solutions exist for non-negative initial values. This advances on…
Published · Communications on pure and applied mathematics, 78 (2025) 9, pp. 1609-1655. The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied…
Published · Journal of machine learning research, 25 (2024) 30, pp. 1-27. We propose new limiting dynamics for stochastic gradient descent in the small learning rate regime called stochastic modified flows. These SDEs are driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion and improve the so-called…
Published · Mathematical programming, (2026). We prove explicit bounds on the exponential rate of convergence for the momentum stochastic gradient descent scheme (MSGD) for arbitrary, fixed hyperparameters (learning rate, friction parameter) and its continuous-in-time counterpart in the…
Published · Journal of functional analysis, 286 (2024) 4, p. 110269. The long-time behavior of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations is analyzed, including the stochastic mean curvature flow as a special case. In a variety of settings, new and sharpened results are obtained. Among them…
Published · The annals of probability, 52 (2024) 5, pp. 1903-1953. Quantitative estimates for the top Lyapunov exponents for systems of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations are proven. The treatment includes reaction potentials with degenerate minima. The proof relies on an asymptotic expansion of the…
Published · Probability theory and related fields, 192 (2025) 3/4, pp. 1447-1515. The convergence of stochastic interacting particle systems in the mean-field limit to solutions of conservative stochastic partial differential equations is established, with optimal rate of convergence. As a second main result, a…
The dynamics of the solutions to a class of conservative SPDEs are analysed from two perspectives: Firstly, a probabilistic construction of a corresponding random dynamical system is given for the first time. Secondly, the existence and uniqueness of invariant measures, as well…
Published · The annals of probability, 50 (2022) 6, pp. 2288-2343. We prove optimal regularity estimates in Sobolev spaces in time and space for solutions to stochastic porous medium equations. The noise term considered here is multiplicative, white in time and coloured in…
Published · Mathematics of computation, 92 (2023), pp. 1931-1976. In micro-fluidics not only does capillarity dominate but also thermal fluctuations become important. On the level of the lubrication approximation, this leads to a quasi-linear fourth-order parabolic equation for the film height…
Published · Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, 248 (2024) 2, p. 20. In this paper we prove the well-posedness of the generalized Dean–Kawasaki equation driven by noise that is white in time and colored in space. The results treat diffusion coefficients that are only…
