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The collective behaviour of stochastic multi-agents swarms driven by Gaussian and non-Gaussian environments is analytically discussed in a mean-field approach. We first exogenously implement long range mutual interactions rules with…

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A statistical theory of the mean field is developed. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction, obtained after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

We consider a Markov control model in discrete time with countable both state space and action space. Using the value function of a suitable long-run average reward problem, we study various reachability/controllability problems. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Daniel Avila , Mauricio Junca

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

We analyse the collective behavior of a mean-field model of phase-oscillators of Kuramoto-Daido type coupled through pairwise interactions which depend on phase differences: the coupling function is composed of three harmonics. We provide…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Pau Clusella , Antonio Politi

Threshold models of cascades in the social sciences and economics explain the spread of opinion and innovation due to social influence. In threshold cascade models, fads or innovations spread between agents as determined by their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-26 Fariba Karimi , Petter Holme

In this work, using the theory of first-order macroscopic crowd models, we introduce a compartmental advection-diffusion model, describing the spatio-temporal dynamics of a population in different human behaviors (alert, panic and control)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-12 K. Khalil , V. Lanza , D. Manceau , M. A. Aziz-Alaoui , D. Provitolo

In this work, we explore some interesting details of the time-dependent regime of the long-range systems under mean-field approximation in comparison with the critical dynamics of the short-range systems. First, we discuss some mechanisms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-03 Roberto da Silva

We introduce a general modeling framework to predict the outcomes, at the population level, of individual psychology and behavior. The framework prescribes that researchers build a cost function that embodies knowledge of what trait values…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierluigi Contucci , Stefano Ghirlanda

We introduce a model of opinion dynamics based on networked non-linear differential equations. The model combines a linear attraction with a repulsive hyperbolic tangent interaction, labeled controversialness. For low controversialness the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-08 Jake Boyce , Matteo Farina , Jody McKerral , Sergiy Shelyag , Mathew Zuparic

This paper analyzes and explicitly solves a class of long-term average impulse control problems with a specific mean-field interaction. The underlying process is a general one-dimensional diffusion with appropriate boundary behavior. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 K. L. Helmes , R. H. Stockbridge , C. Zhu

We study the onset of collective oscillations at low temperature in a three-dimensional spin model with non-reciprocal short-range interactions. Performing numerical simulations of the model, the presence of a continuous phase transition to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Laura Guislain , Eric Bertin

We characterize both analytically and numerically short-range forces between spatially diffuse interfaces in multi-phase-field models of polycrystalline materials. During late-stage solidification, crystal-melt interfaces may attract or…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Wang , R. Spatschek , A. Karma

Polarization issue is generally subject to ideological polarization and affective polarization. In particular, affective polarization usually accelerates the polarization process and transform social interactions into a zero-sum game. Yet,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-27 Peng-Bi Cui

The dynamics of the domains is studied in a two-dimensional model of the microphase separation of diblock copolymers in the vicinity of the transition. A criterion for the validity of the mean field theory is derived. It is shown that at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Muratov

The dynamics and the thermodynamics of particles/spins interacting via long-range forces display several unusual features with respect to systems with short-range interactions. The Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model, a Hamiltonian system of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Alessandro Pluchino , Vito Latora , Andrea Rapisarda

Understanding how conflict events spread over time and space is crucial for predicting and mitigating future violence. However, progress in this area has been limited by the lack of methods capable of capturing the intricate, dynamic…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-24 Thomas Schincariol

This paper presents global tracking strategies for the attitude dynamics of a rigid body. It is well known that global attractivity is prohibited for continuous attitude control systems on the special orthogonal group. Such topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Taeyoung Lee , Dong-Eui Chang , Yongsoon Eun

We introduce a utility-driven bounded-confidence model of opinion dynamics in which opinions associated with higher utility exert stronger social influence. In the regime where all agents belong to a single opinion cluster, we derive a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-22 Alex Siebenmorgen , Juan G. Restrepo

Perceptrons are the building blocks of many theoretical approaches to a wide range of complex systems, ranging from neural networks and deep learning machines, to constraint satisfaction problems, glasses and ecosystems. Despite their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-20 Elisabeth Agoritsas , Giulio Biroli , Pierfrancesco Urbani , Francesco Zamponi