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Strong well-posedness of a singular SDE for signed Coulomb particles

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-19 v1 Probability

Abstract

We consider an SDE system for signed Coulomb particles moving in R2\mathbb R^2. Due to the singular Coulomb interaction force, collisions between particles of opposite sign will happen in finite time. Upon collision, the colliding particles are removed from the system. Our main results are the existence and uniqueness of strong global solutions and the characterization of all possible collisions. The challenge of the proofs is to deal with the singularity of the interactions. We overcome this by using scaling invariance of the process and by putting together several tools from [FT25] developed for the similar Keller--Segel particle system.

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@article{arxiv.2605.16788,
  title  = {Strong well-posedness of a singular SDE for signed Coulomb particles},
  author = {Patrick van Meurs and Yoan Tardy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16788},
  year   = {2026}
}

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35 pages