Landau damping in the Kuramoto model (Q2628873)

Various aspects of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators are not completely understood. In this paper, the authors treat, from a rigorous mathematical viewpoint, the complete nonlinear dynamics in the incoherent regime of the continuum limit of the Kuramoto model. The oscillators' intrinsic frequencies are chosen from a sufficiently regular density \(g\), and the authors prove that for every sufficiently regular and small initial perturbation of the uniform steady state, the corresponding order parameter tends to zero as \(t\rightarrow\infty\). They also show that the same conclusion holds for any sufficiently regular (although not necessarily small) perturbation, as long as the coupling strength between oscillators is small enough. The authors use PDE methods, in particular, the approach to Landau damping previously studied in the Vlasov and Vlasov-Hamiltonian mean-field models.