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This paper develops a non-asymptotic, local approach to quantitative propagation of chaos for a wide class of mean field diffusive dynamics. For a system of $n$ interacting particles, the relative entropy between the marginal law of $k$…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Daniel Lacker

We consider a $N$-particle model describing an alignment mechanism due to a topological interaction among the agents. We show that the kinetic equation, expected to hold in the mean-field limit $N \to \infty$, as following from the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Pierre Degond , Mario Pulvirenti

Statistical physics is important in understanding the physics of interacting many bodies. This has been historically developed by attempts to understand colliding gases and quantifying quantities like entropy, free energy, and other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Niamat Gill , Nishchal Dwivedi

We consider solutions to the Kac master equation for initial conditions where $N$ particles are in a thermal equilibrium and $M\le N$ particles are out of equilibrium. We show that such solutions have exponential decay in entropy relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Federico Bonetto , Alissa Geisinger , Michael Loss , Tobias Ried

The paper treats an agent-based model with averaging dynamics to which we refer as the K-averaging model. Broadly speaking, our model can be added to the growing list of dynamics exhibiting self-organization such as the well-known…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Fei Cao

We build solutions to Kac's particle system and show that their empirical measures converge to the solution of the space-homogeneous Boltzmann equation in the regime of very soft potentials. This proves propagation of chaos for the last…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Côme Tabary

Due to the regularization effect of the stochastic noise, the quantitative entropy-cost type propagation of chaos for mean field interacting particle system is proposed. The result shows that the Kac's chaotic property measured in relative…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Xing Huang

New quantitative propagation of chaos results for mean field diffusion are proved via local and global entropy estimates. In the first result we work on the torus and consider singular, divergence free interactions $K\in L^p$, $p>d$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Yi Han

Experimental and theoretical results about entropy limits for macroscopic and single-particle systems are reviewed. It is clarified when it is possible to speak about a quantum of entropy, given by the Boltzmann constant k, and about a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Uwe Hohm , Christoph Schiller

In this paper, we prove that the Kac stochastic particle system converges to the weak solution of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials and hard spheres. We give, under the initial data with finite exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Chenguang Liu , Liping Xu , An Zhang

We investigate Kac's many-particle stochastic model of gas dynamics in the case of hard potentials with a moderate angular singularity, and show that the noncutoff particle system can be obtained as the limit of cutoff systems, with a rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Daniel Heydecker

Boltzmann provided a scenario to explain why individual macroscopic systems composed of a large number $N$ of microscopic constituents are inevitably (i.e., with overwhelming probability) observed to approach a unique macroscopic state of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Stephan De Bievre , Paul E. Parris

We introduce quantum versions of the Kac Master Equation and the Kac Boltzmann Equation. We study the steady states of each of these equations, and prove a propagation of chaos theorem that relates them. The Quantum Kac Master Equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Michael P. Loss

We introduce and analyze a nonlinear exchange dynamics for Ising spin systems with arbitrary interactions. The evolution is governed by a quadratic Boltzmann-type equation that conserves the mean magnetization. Collisions are encoded…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Pietro Caputo , Mario Morellini

We consider Kac's 1D N-particle system coupled to an ideal thermostat at temperature T, introduced by Bonetto, Loss, and Vaidyanathan in 2014. We obtain a propagation of chaos result for this system, with explicit and uniform-in-time rates…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Roberto Cortez , Hagop Tossounian

The aim of this work is to analyze the entropy, entropy flux and entropy supply rate of granular fluids within the frameworks of the Boltzmann equation and continuum thermodynamics. It is shown that the entropy inequality for a granular gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-17 Gilberto M. Kremer

We prove that the solution of the Kac analogue of Boltzmann's equation can be viewed as a probability distribution of a sum of a random number of random variables. This fact allows us to study convergence to equilibrium by means of a few…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Ester Gabetta , Eugenio Regazzini

This note is concerned with weakly interacting stochastic particle systems with possibly singular pairwise interactions. In this setting, we observe a connection between entropic propagation of chaos and exponential concentration bounds for…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Joe Jackson , Antonios Zitridis

Entropy, its production, and its change in a dynamical system can be understood from either a fully stochastic dynamic description or from a deterministic dynamics exhibiting chaotic behavior. By taking the former approach based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Hong Qian , Zhongwei Shen

This paper is devoted to the study of mean-field limit for systems of indistinguables particles undergoing collision processes. As formulated by Kac \cite{Kac1956} this limit is based on the {\em chaos propagation}, and we (1) prove and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-19 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot