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Natural flocks (aligned) and swarms (non-aligned) both exhibit features of near-criticality, challenging their treatment as two ends of the same phase transition. We present a model for the aggregation of active individuals, in which their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-26 Joao Lizárraga , Marcus de Aguiar

We study the mathematical theory of second order systems with two species, arising in the dynamics of interacting particles subject to linear damping, to nonlocal forces and to external ones, and resulting into a nonlocal version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Marco Di Francesco , Simone Fagioli , Valeria Iorio

The collective motion of self-driven agents is a phenomenon of great interest in interacting particle systems. In this paper, we develop and analyze a model of agent motion in one dimension with periodic boundaries using a stochastic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Matthias Ehrhardt , Thomas Kruse , Antoine Tordeux

We consider a self-propelled particle system which has been used to describe certain types of collective motion of animals, such as fish schools and bird flocks. Interactions between particles are specified by means of a pairwise potential,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-05 J. A. Carrillo , S. Martin , V. Panferov

We introduce a novel generative model for the representation of joint probability distributions of a possibly large number of discrete random variables. The approach uses measure transport by randomized assignment flows on the statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-15 Bastian Boll , Daniel Gonzalez-Alvarado , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

We are concerned with nonexistence results of nonnegative weak solutions for a class of quasilinear parabolic problems with a potential on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we highlight the interplay between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-27 P. Mastrolia , D. D. Monticelli , F. Punzo

Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic modelling scales in crowd dynamics constitutes an open challenge for systematic numerical analysis, optimization, and control. Here, we propose a manifold-informed machine learning approach to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hector Vargas Alvarez , Dimitrios G. Patsatzis , Lucia Russo , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Constantinos Siettos

We study the spatial patterns formed by a system of interacting particles where the mobility of any individual is determined by the population crowding at two different spatial scales. In this way we model the behavior of some biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ricardo Martínez-García , Clara Murgui , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

We study emergent behaviors of Cucker-Smale(CS) flocks on the hyperboloid $\mathbb{H}^d$ in any dimensions. In a recent work \cite{H-H-K-K-M}, a first-order aggregation model on the hyperboloid was proposed and its emergent dynamics was…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Hyunjin Ahn , Seung-Yeal Ha , Hansol Park , Woojoo Shim

We study an interacting high-density one-dimensional system of self-propelled particles described by the Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model where, even in the absence of alignment interactions, velocity and energy domains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

In recent years, the study of biological transportation networks has attracted significant interest, focusing on their self-regulating, demand-driven nature. This paper examines a mathematical model for these networks, featuring nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Clarissa Astuto , Peter Markowich , Simone Portaro , Giovanni Russo

We consider interacting particle systems and their mean-field limits, which are frequently used to model collective aggregation and are known to demonstrate a rich variety of pattern formations. The interaction is based on a pairwise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Yanghong Huang , Stephan Martin

Filamentous cyanobacteria can show fascinating examples of nonequilibrium self-organization, which however are not well-understood from a physical perspective. We investigate the motility and collective organization of colonies of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-20 Mixon K. Faluweki , Jan Cammann , Marco G. Mazza , Lucas Goehring

In this paper we study a path planning problem from a variational approach to collision and obstacle avoidance for multi-agent systems evolving on a Riemannian manifold. The problem consists of finding non-intersecting trajectories between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Rama Seshan Chandrasekaran , Leonardo J. Colombo , Margarida Camarinha , Ravi Banavar , Anthony Bloch

We introduce a system of self-propelled agents (active Brownian particles) with velocity alignment in two spatial dimensions and derive a mean-field theory from the microscopic dynamics via a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation and a moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-26 Pawel Romanczuk , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Active agents can transfer energy to their environment through collective motion, generating accumulation patterns near confining obstacles. Here we investigate how the nature of the microscopic drive-self-propulsion or velocity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-18 Francesco Arceri , Vittoria Sposini , Enzo Orlandini , Fulvio Baldovin

The numerical simulation of realistic reactive flows is a major challenge due to the stiffness and high dimension of the corresponding kinetic differential equations. Manifold-based model reduction techniques address this problem by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Jörn Dietrich , Dirk Lebiedz

We examine the optimal mass transport problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ between densities having independent compact support by considering the geometry of a continuous interpolating support boundary in space-time within which the mass density…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Anthony Yezzi

We study the emerging collective states in a simple mechanical model of a dense group of self-propelled polar disks with off-centered rotation, confined within a circular arena. Each disk presents self-alignment towards the sum of contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Weizhen Tang , Yating Zheng , Amir Shee , Guozheng Lin , Zhangang Han , Pawel Romanczuk , Cristián Huepe