On the weak flocking of the kinetic Cucker-Smale model in a fully non-compact support setting

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Main Authors: Ha, Seung-Yeal, Wang, Xinyu
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author Ha, Seung-Yeal
Wang, Xinyu
author_facet Ha, Seung-Yeal
Wang, Xinyu
contents We study the emergent behaviors of the weak solutions to the kinetic Cucker-Smale (in short, KCS) model in a non-compact spatial-velocity support setting. Unlike the compact support situation, non-compact support of a weak solution can cause a communication weight to have zero lower bounds, and position difference does not have a uniformly linear growth bound. These cause the previous approach based on the nonlinear functional approach for spatial and velocity diameters to break down. To overcome these difficulties, we derive refined estimates on the upper bounds for the second-order spatial-velocity moments and show the uniqueness of the weak solution using the estimate on the deviation of particle trajectories. For the estimate of emergent dynamics, we consider two classes of distribution functions with decaying properties (an exponential decay or polynomial decay) in phase space, and then verify that the second moment for the velocity deviation from an average velocity tends to zero asymptotically, while the second moment for spatial deviation from the center of mass remains bounded uniformly in time. This illustrates the robustness of the mono-cluster flocking dynamics of the KCS model even for fully non-compact support settings in phase space and generalizes earlier results on flocking dynamics in a compact support setting.
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spellingShingle On the weak flocking of the kinetic Cucker-Smale model in a fully non-compact support setting
Ha, Seung-Yeal
Wang, Xinyu
Analysis of PDEs
34D05, 70K20, 76D07
We study the emergent behaviors of the weak solutions to the kinetic Cucker-Smale (in short, KCS) model in a non-compact spatial-velocity support setting. Unlike the compact support situation, non-compact support of a weak solution can cause a communication weight to have zero lower bounds, and position difference does not have a uniformly linear growth bound. These cause the previous approach based on the nonlinear functional approach for spatial and velocity diameters to break down. To overcome these difficulties, we derive refined estimates on the upper bounds for the second-order spatial-velocity moments and show the uniqueness of the weak solution using the estimate on the deviation of particle trajectories. For the estimate of emergent dynamics, we consider two classes of distribution functions with decaying properties (an exponential decay or polynomial decay) in phase space, and then verify that the second moment for the velocity deviation from an average velocity tends to zero asymptotically, while the second moment for spatial deviation from the center of mass remains bounded uniformly in time. This illustrates the robustness of the mono-cluster flocking dynamics of the KCS model even for fully non-compact support settings in phase space and generalizes earlier results on flocking dynamics in a compact support setting.
title On the weak flocking of the kinetic Cucker-Smale model in a fully non-compact support setting
topic Analysis of PDEs
34D05, 70K20, 76D07
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07493