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Main Author: Surin, Alexandre
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06765
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author Surin, Alexandre
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contents We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic (symmetry) and a regime with a continuum of polarized stationary solutions (symmetry breaking). If the value of the noise is larger than the threshold value, the solution of the evolution equation converges to the unique radial stationary solution. This solution is linearly unstable in the symmetry-breaking range, while polarized stationary solutions attract all solutions with sufficiently low entropy. We prove that the convergence measured in a weighted $L^2$ norm occurs with an exponential rate and that the average speed also converges with exponential rate to a unique limit which determines a single polarized stationary solution.
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spellingShingle Rates of convergence in long time asymptotics of an alignment model with symmetry breaking
Surin, Alexandre
Analysis of PDEs
We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic (symmetry) and a regime with a continuum of polarized stationary solutions (symmetry breaking). If the value of the noise is larger than the threshold value, the solution of the evolution equation converges to the unique radial stationary solution. This solution is linearly unstable in the symmetry-breaking range, while polarized stationary solutions attract all solutions with sufficiently low entropy. We prove that the convergence measured in a weighted $L^2$ norm occurs with an exponential rate and that the average speed also converges with exponential rate to a unique limit which determines a single polarized stationary solution.
title Rates of convergence in long time asymptotics of an alignment model with symmetry breaking
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06765