A simple proof of the Cucker-Smale flocking dynamics and mean-field limit

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-325

  Ha, Seung Yeal ^a   Liu, Jian Guo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Emergence; Flocking; Kantorovich Rubinstein distance; Lyapunov functional; Measure valued solution; Self driven particles system; Swarming; Vlasov equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350482936     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2009.v7.n2.a2     Document Type: Article

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