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This work is mainly concerned with the so-called limit theory for mean-field games. Adopting the weak formulation paradigm put forward by Carmona and Lacker, we consider a fully non-Markovian setting allowing for drift control and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Dylan Possamaï , Ludovic Tangpi

Describing the collective dynamics of large neural populations using low-dimensional models for averaged variables has long been an attractive task in theoretical neuroscience. Recently developed reduction methods make it possible to derive…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Viktoras Pyragas , Kestutis Pyragas

We consider a microscopic model of spherical particles with inertia in a Stokes flow. As the particle number grows to infinity and their size goes to zero we derive the monokinetic Vlasov-Stokes equations as mean-field limit. We do this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Richard M. Höfer , A. Mecherbet , R. Schubert

Classical swarm models, exemplified by the Cucker--Smale framework, provide foundational insights into collective alignment but exhibit fundamental limitations in capturing the adaptive, heterogeneous behaviours intrinsic to living systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-08 Rene Fabregas , Jie Liao , Nisrine Outada

The goal of the paper is to introduce a formulation of the mean field game with major and minor players as a fixed point on a space of controls. This approach emphasizes naturally the role played by McKean-Vlasov dynamics in some of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Rene Carmona , Peiqi Wang

In this paper, we present a numerical approach to solve the McKean-Vlasov equations, which are distribution-dependent stochastic differential equations, under some non-globally Lipschitz conditions for both the drift and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Qian Guo , Jie He , Lei Li

In the paper [25], written in collaboration with Gesine Reinert, we proved a universality principle for the Gaussian Wiener chaos. In the present work, we aim at providing an original example of application of this principle in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Ivan Nourdin , Giovanni Peccati

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

We study the emergent behaviors of the weak solutions to the kinetic Cucker-Smale (in short, KCS) model in a non-compact spatial-velocity support setting. Unlike the compact support situation, non-compact support of a weak solution can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang

The violent relaxation and the metastable states of the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, a paradigmatic system of long-range interactions, is studied using a Hamiltonian formalism. Rigorous results are derived algebraically for the time…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-29 Romain Bachelard , Cristel Chandre , Antonia Ciani , Duccio Fanelli , Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

This paper studies the numerical simulation of the solution to the McKean-Vlasov equation with common noise. We begin by discretizing the solution in time using the Euler scheme, followed by spatial discretization through the particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Théophile Le Gall

In this paper, we present an innovative particle system characterized by moderate interactions, designed to accurately approximate kinetic flocking models that incorporate singular interaction forces and local alignment mechanisms. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Jinhuan Wang , Keyu Li , Hui Huang

We study the dynamical and statistical behavior of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model in order to investigate the relation between microscopic chaos and phase transitions. HMF is a simple toy model of $N$ fully-coupled rotators which…

chao-dyn · Physics 2014-10-13 Vito Latora , Andrea Rapisarda , Stefano Ruffo

In this paper we establish some explicit and sharp estimates of the spectral gap and the log-Sobolev constant for mean field particles system, uniform in the number of particles, when the confinement potential have many local minimums. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Arnaud Guillin , Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

Recently, several authors have tried to extend the usual concepts of thermodynamics and kinetic theory in order to deal with distributions that can be non-Boltzmannian. For dissipative systems described by the canonical ensemble, this leads…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We briefly discuss the state of the art on the anomalous dynamics of the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. We stress the important role of the initial conditions for understanding the microscopic nature of the intriguing metastable quasi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessandro Pluchino , Andrea Rapisarda

The empirical measure of an interacting particle system is a purely atomic random probability measure. In the limit as the number of particles grows to infinity, we show for McKean-Vlasov systems with common noise that this measure becomes…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert Alexander Crowell

In this paper, we study a continuous ocking Cucker-Smale model with noise, which has isotropic and polarized stationary solutions depending on the intensity of the noise. The first result establishes the threshold value of the noise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Xingyu Li

This paper studies the rate of convergence of a family of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC) to a mean-field model. When the mean-field model is a finite-dimensional dynamical system with a unique equilibrium point, an analysis based on…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Lei Ying

Consider a system of autonomous interacting agents moving in space, adjusting each own velocity as a weighted mean of the relative velocities of the other agents. In order to test the robustness of the model, we assume that each pair of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Eduardo Canale , Federico Dalmao , Ernesto Mordecki , Max Souza