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Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same direction and at the same speed, but that even the fluctuations around the mean…

We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alexandre Surin

We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective motion -- being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated behavior. Our aim is to provide a balanced discussion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-16 Tamás Vicsek , Anna Zafeiris

We study a system of Fokker-Planck equations recently introduced to describe the temporal evolution of statistical distributions of population densities with predator-prey interactions. At the macroscopic level, the system recovers a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

Large animal groups -- bird flocks, fish schools, insect swarms -- are often assumed to form by gradual aggregation of sparsely distributed individuals. Using a mathematically precise framework based on time-varying directed interaction…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Jidong Jin

We investigate the relation between the cooperative length and the relaxation time, represented respectively by the culling time and the persistence time, in the Fredrickson-Andersen, Kob-Andersen and spiral kinetically-constrained models.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-01 Eial Teomy , Yair Shokef

We study how the finite-sized n-component model A with periodic boundary conditions relaxes near its bulk critical point from an initial nonequilibrium state with short-range correlations. Particular attention is paid to the universal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Ritschel , H. W. Diehl

We first present a new stochastic version of the Cucker-Smale model of the emergent behavior in flocks in which the mutual communication between individuals is affected by random factor. Then, the existence and uniqueness of global solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Ta Viet Ton , Nguyen Thi Hoai Linh , Atsushi Yagi

We derive an explicit form for the Cucker-Smale (CS) model on the special orthogonal group $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ by identifying closed form expressions for geometric quantities such as covariant derivative and parallel transport in exponential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Razvan C. Fetecau , Seung-Yeal Ha , Hansol Park

In this paper, we deal with a Cucker-Smale model with time-dependent time delay and communication failures. Namely, we investigate the situation in which the agents involved in a flocking process can possibly suspend the exchange of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Elisa Continelli

In this paper, we discuss the flocking phenomenon for the Cucker-Smale and Motsch-Tadmor models in continuous time on a general oriented and weighted graph with a general communication function. We present a new approach for studying this…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Adrien Jean Cotil

We first formulate the problem of optimally scheduling air traffic low with sector capacity constraints as a mixed integer linear program. We then use semidefinite relaxation techniques to form a convex relaxation of that problem. Finally,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

We establish the existence of martingale solutions to a class of stochastic conservation equations. The underlying models correspond to random perturbations of kinetic models for collective motion such as the Cucker-Smale and Motsch-Tadmor…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Arnaud Debussche , Angelo Rosello

We analyze the nonlinear relaxation of a complex ecosystem composed of many interacting species. The ecological system is described by generalized Lotka-Volterra equations with a multiplicative noise. The transient dynamics is studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. A. Cirone , F. de Pasquale , B. Spagnolo

We study the relaxation to equilibrium for a class linear one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations characterized by a particular subcritical confinement potential. An interesting feature of this class of Fokker-Planck equations is that, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-23 G. Toscani , M. Zanella

This work is concerned with relaxation models arising from numerical schemes for hyperbolic-parabolic systems. Such models are a hyperbolic system with both the hyperbolic part and the stiff source term involving a small positive parameter,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Zhiting Ma , Weifeng Zhao

Experiments find coherent information transfer through biological groups on length and time scales distinctly below those on which asymptotically correct hydrodynamic theories apply. We present here a new continuum theory of collective…

We consider the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with local alignment as a mesoscopic description for the flocking dynamics. The local alignment was first proposed by Karper, Mellet and Trivisa \cite{K-M-T-3}, as a singular limit of a normalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Alessio Figalli , Moon-Jin Kang

Spectral Clustering as a relaxation of the normalized/ratio cut has become one of the standard graph-based clustering methods. Existing methods for the computation of multiple clusters, corresponding to a balanced $k$-cut of the graph, are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Matthias Hein

Many-body systems relaxing to equilibrium can exhibit complex dynamics even if their steady state is trivial. At low temperatures or high densities their evolution is often dominated by steric hindrances affecting particle motion [1,2,3].…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-10 M. M. Valado , C. Simonelli , M. D. Hoogerland , I. Lesanovsky , J. P. Garrahan , E. Arimondo , D. Ciampini , O. Morsch