On the critical exponent for flocks under hierarchical leadership

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 1391-1404

  Cucker, Felipe ^a   Dong, Jiu Gang ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

Author keywords

Hierarchical leadership; Unconditional convergence.

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RESULTS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; CRITICAL VALUE; DISCRETE TIME; HIERARCHICAL LEADERSHIP; UNCONDITIONAL CONVERGENCE.;

EID: 69849097029     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202509003851     Document Type: Article

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