Cucker-Smale type flocking models on a sphere

DOI10.1063/5.0160493MaRDI QIDQ6351847zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sun-Ho Choi, Dohyun Kwon, Hyowon Seo

Publication date 20 October 2020

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160493

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Animal behavior (92D50)

Abstract: We present a Cucker-Smale (C-S) type flocking model on a sphere. We study velocity alignment on a sphere and prove the emergence of flocking for the proposed model. Our model includes three new terms: a centripetal force, multi-agent interactions on a sphere and inter-particle bonding forces. To compare velocity vectors on different tangent spaces, we introduce a rotation operator in our new interaction term. Due to the geometric restriction, the rotation operator is singular at antipodal points and the relative velocity between two agents located at these points is not well-defined. Based on an energy dissipation property of our model and a variation of Barbalat's lemma, we show the alignment of velocities for an admissible class of communication weight functions. In addition, for sufficiently large bonding forces we prove time-asymptotic flocking which includes the avoidance of antipodal points.

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