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A stochastic process is constructed in Minkowski normed spaces whose marginal densities match the fundamental solution of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation.

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Constructs a pathwise-unique strong solution to a singular McKean-Vlasov SDE whose marginal laws are the fundamental solutions of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation on Minkowski normed spaces.

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load-bearing objection The paper builds a nonlinear Markov process in Minkowski normed spaces as the strong solution to a singular McKean-Vlasov SDE whose marginals recover the fundamental solution of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation, with a pathwise uniqueness claim.

arxiv 2607.00800 v1 pith:DQYLTPNY submitted 2026-07-01 math.PR math.APmath.DG

Brownian motion in Minkowski normed spaces

Shin-ichi Ohta , Marco Rehmeier , Kohei Suzuki This is my paper
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keywords Brownian motionMinkowski normed spaceFinsler heat equationMcKean-Vlasov SDEnonlinear Markov processpathwise uniquenessstochastic differential equation
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The paper constructs a stochastic process whose one-dimensional marginal densities are given by the fundamental solution to the nonlinear Finsler heat equation on Minkowski normed spaces. The process arises as the solution to a singular McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation and is shown to be pathwise unique, yielding strong solutions even beyond the subcritical regime. This construction extends the classical link between Brownian motion and the heat kernel to the setting of uniformly convex smooth norms. A sympathetic reader would care because it supplies the first probabilistic representation for nonlinear diffusion on this class of Finsler manifolds.

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We construct a stochastic process with one-dimensional time marginal densities given by the fundamental solution to the nonlinear Finsler heat equation in Minkowski normed spaces. This process is constructed as a solution to a singular McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equation and constitutes a nonlinear Markov process in the sense of McKean. Furthermore, we show that solutions to this stochastic differential equation are pathwise unique, and thus probabilistically strong solutions, though the equation has singular coefficients beyond the subcritical regime. Since our construction is a natural extension of the construction of standard Brownian motion from the standard heat kernel, we c

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The singular McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation whose solutions realize the fundamental solution of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation as one-dimensional marginal densities.

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The nonlinear Finsler heat equation admits a fundamental solution that can be realized as the marginal densities of a solution to the singular McKean-Vlasov SDE.

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A calculation showing that the marginal densities of any solution to the McKean-Vlasov equation fail to satisfy the nonlinear Finsler heat equation, or an explicit counterexample demonstrating lack of pathwise uniqueness for the SDE.

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Summary. The manuscript constructs a stochastic process termed 'Brownian motion in Minkowski normed spaces' on Euclidean space equipped with a uniformly convex, smooth (possibly asymmetric) Minkowski norm. The process has one-dimensional marginal densities given by the fundamental solution of the associated nonlinear Finsler heat equation, is realized as the strong solution of a singular McKean-Vlasov SDE, and is shown to be pathwise unique (hence a nonlinear Markov process in McKean's sense). The construction is presented as the direct analogue of the classical Brownian motion/heat kernel correspondence, claimed to be the first such process for nonlinear heat equations on Finslerian spaces.

Significance. If the marginal-density property and pathwise uniqueness hold, the result supplies the first probabilistic construction and strong-solution theory for a nonlinear parabolic PDE on a Finsler manifold, extending the classical link between Brownian motion and the heat equation to an asymmetric, non-Riemannian setting. The explicit handling of singular coefficients outside the subcritical regime, together with the parameter-free character of the construction, would constitute a technically substantive advance for stochastic analysis on Finsler spaces and for nonlinear McKean-Vlasov theory.

minor comments (3)
  1. The precise form of the singular McKean-Vlasov drift (including the dependence on the law and the Minkowski norm) should be stated explicitly in the introduction or §2 before the main existence/uniqueness theorem, to allow immediate comparison with the classical case.
  2. Clarify whether the fundamental solution of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation is assumed to exist a priori or is constructed simultaneously with the process; the current abstract phrasing leaves this logical order ambiguous.
  3. The statement that the coefficients lie 'beyond the subcritical regime' would benefit from a short paragraph recalling the precise subcriticality condition used in the literature and indicating which estimates replace the usual Lipschitz or linear-growth arguments.

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The paper's core construction takes the fundamental solution of the nonlinear Finsler heat equation as an input (assumed to exist) and builds a McKean-Vlasov SDE whose marginals recover that solution, explicitly framed as a direct analogue of the classical heat-kernel-to-Brownian-motion construction. No equations or steps are shown to reduce by definition to fitted parameters, self-citations, or ansatzes imported from the authors' prior work. Pathwise uniqueness is asserted for the resulting singular SDE, but this is presented as a technical result rather than a tautology. The derivation chain remains independent of the target object and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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  • domain assumption Minkowski normed space is Euclidean space equipped with a uniformly convex and smooth (possibly asymmetric) norm, forming a Finsler manifold.
    Stated directly in the abstract as the geometric setting.

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A Minkowski normed space is the Euclidean space equipped with a (possibly asymmetric) uniformly convex and smooth norm, forming a particular class of Finsler manifolds. We construct a stochastic process with one-dimensional time marginal densities given by the fundamental solution to the nonlinear Finsler heat equation in Minkowski normed spaces. This process is constructed as a solution to a singular McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equation and constitutes a nonlinear Markov process in the sense of McKean. Furthermore, we show that solutions to this stochastic differential equation are pathwise unique, and thus probabilistically strong solutions, though the equation has singular coefficients beyond the subcritical regime. Since our construction is a natural extension of the construction of standard Brownian motion from the standard heat kernel, we call this process \emph{Brownian motion in Minkowski normed spaces.} To the best of our knowledge, this is the first construction of stochastic processes associated with nonlinear heat equation in Finslerian spaces.

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