The Lake equation as a supercritical mean-field limit

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Main Authors: Rosenzweig, Matthew, Serfaty, Sylvia
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author Rosenzweig, Matthew
Serfaty, Sylvia
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Serfaty, Sylvia
contents We study so-called supercritical mean-field limits of systems of trapped particles moving according to Newton's second law with either Coulomb/super-Coulomb or regular interactions, from which we derive a $\mathsf{d}$-dimensional generalization of the Lake equation, which coincides with the incompressible Euler equation in the simplest setting, for monokinetic data. This supercritical mean-field limit may also be interpreted as a combined mean-field and quasineutral limit, and our assumptions on the rates of these respective limits are shown to be optimal. Our work provides a mathematical basis for the universality of the Lake equation in this scaling limit -- a new observation -- in the sense that the dependence on the interaction and confinement is only through the limiting spatial density of the particles. Our proof is based on a modulated-energy method and takes advantage of regularity theory for the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian.
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spellingShingle The Lake equation as a supercritical mean-field limit
Rosenzweig, Matthew
Serfaty, Sylvia
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Plasma Physics
35Q35, 35Q70, 35Q83, 35Q82, 82C21, 82C70, 82D10
We study so-called supercritical mean-field limits of systems of trapped particles moving according to Newton's second law with either Coulomb/super-Coulomb or regular interactions, from which we derive a $\mathsf{d}$-dimensional generalization of the Lake equation, which coincides with the incompressible Euler equation in the simplest setting, for monokinetic data. This supercritical mean-field limit may also be interpreted as a combined mean-field and quasineutral limit, and our assumptions on the rates of these respective limits are shown to be optimal. Our work provides a mathematical basis for the universality of the Lake equation in this scaling limit -- a new observation -- in the sense that the dependence on the interaction and confinement is only through the limiting spatial density of the particles. Our proof is based on a modulated-energy method and takes advantage of regularity theory for the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian.
title The Lake equation as a supercritical mean-field limit
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Plasma Physics
35Q35, 35Q70, 35Q83, 35Q82, 82C21, 82C70, 82D10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14642