Francesco Grotto

 
Currently Tenure Track Researcher at the Mathematics Department of University of Pisa.

Postal Address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5, 56127 Pisa, Italia
Email: francesco.grotto at unipi.it



Portrait of Francesco Grotto

Teaching (Italian)

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Scientific Interests

My research activity mostly focuses on applications of Probability Theory and Stochastic Analysis to Fluid Dynamics: I have been working in particular on invariant measures of fluid dynamical (S)PDEs, interacting particle systems (point vortex models) and their scaling limits.

All my publications are available on arXiv, below a selection with links to the published versions:

Stationary Solutions of Damped Stochastic 2-dimensional Euler's Equation
Electronic Journal of Probability (2020), doi:10.1214/20-EJP474

A Central Limit Theorem for Gibbsian Invariant Measures of 2D Euler Equations
Joint work with Marco Romito,
Communications in Mathematical Physics (2020), doi:10.1007/s00220-020-03724-1

Essential Self-Adjointness of Liouville Operator for 2D Euler Point Vortices
Journal of Functional Analysis (2020), doi:10.1016/j.jfa.2020.108635

Burst of Point Vortices and Non-Uniqueness of 2D Euler Equations
Joint work with Umberto Pappalettera,
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (2022): 89-125, doi:10.1007/s00205-022-01784-2

Zero-noise dynamics after collapse for three point vortices
Joint work with Marco Romito and Milo Viviani,
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 457 (2024), doi:10.1016/j.physd.2023.133947

Random Splitting of Point Vortex Flows
Joint work with Andrea Agazzi and Jonathan Mattingly,
Electronic Communications in Probability 29 (2024), doi:10.1214/24-ECP594

Gibbs Equilibrium Fluctuations of Point Vortex Dynamics
Joint work with Eliseo Luongo and Marco Romito,
Annals of Applied Probability 34(6) (2024), doi:10.1214/24-AAP2095

Anomalous Regularization in Kraichnan's Passive Scalar Model
Joint work with Lucio Galeati and Mario Maurelli,
Probab. Theory Relat. Fields (2026), doi:10.1007/s00440-026-01496-8

Anomalous Regularization in Kazantsev-Kraichnan Model
Joint work with Marco Bagnara and Mario Maurelli,
to appear on Communications in Mathematical Physics (2026+), here the arXiv version.

Among my recent preprints:

The Missing Central Limit Theorems for Local Functionals of Berry's Random Wave Model.

Fluctuations of Point Vortex Ensembles at Small Negative Inverse Temperature.

An Effective SPDE Model for a Schrödinger Equation with a Fluctuating Magnetic Potential
with Franco Flandoli, Reika Fukuizumi and Eliseo Luongo.

Organization of Events

I am an organizer of the Seminars on Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Analysis of University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Firenze.

Together with Anna Paola Todino I have organized the INdAM workshop Analysis and Geometry of Random Fields, held in Rome on 4-6th September 2024.