2024/11/15 by Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Asmaa Eldesoukey, Miangolarra, Olga Movilla +5 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.09880
openalex publication_date 2024/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Reaction-diffusion equations are commonly used to model a diverse array of complex systems, including biological, chemical, and physical processes. Typically, these models are phenomenological, requiring the fitting of parameters to experimental data. In the present work, we introduce a novel formalism to construct reaction-diffusion models that is grounded in the principle of maximum entropy. This new formalism aims to incorporate various types of experimental data, including ensemble currents, distributions at different points in time, or moments of such. To this end, we expand the framework of Schrödinger bridges and Maximum Caliber problems to nonlinear interacting systems. We illustrate the usefulness of the proposed approach by modeling the evolution of (i) a morphogen across the fin of a zebrafish and (ii) the population of two varieties of toads in Poland, so as to match the experimental data.