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Long-Time Dynamics for a Simple Aggregation Equation on the Sphere

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We give a complete study of the asymptotic behavior of a simple model of alignment of unit vectors, both at the level of particles, which corresponds to a system of coupled differential equations, and at the continuum level, under the form of an aggregation equation on the sphere. We prove unconditional convergence towards an aligned asymptotic state. In the cases of the differential system and of symmetric initial data for the partial differential equation, we provide precise rates of convergence.

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Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank the hospitality of Athanasios Tzavaras and the University of Crete, back in 2012, where this work was done and supported by the EU FP7-REGPOT project “Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis and Computation”.

They also want to thank the anonymous referee for his fast, careful, and efficient reading, despite their very late submission.

A.F. acknowledges support from the EFI project ANR-17-CE40-0030 and the Kibord project ANR-13-BS01-0004 of the French National Research Agency (ANR), from the project Défi S2C3 POSBIO of the interdisciplinary mission of CNRS, and the project SMS co-funded by CNRS and the Royal Society.

J.-G. L. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Research Network Grant no. RNMS11-07444 (KI-Net) and the grant DMS-1812573.

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Frouvelle, A., Liu, JG. (2019). Long-Time Dynamics for a Simple Aggregation Equation on the Sphere. In: Giacomin, G., Olla, S., Saada, E., Spohn, H., Stoltz, G. (eds) Stochastic Dynamics Out of Equilibrium. IHPStochDyn 2017. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 282. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15096-9_16

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