Convergence and non-convergence of many-particle evolutions with multiple signs

DOI10.1007/S00205-019-01436-YzbMATH Open1434.82082arXiv1810.04934OpenAlexW2994545812MaRDI QIDQ2296901FDOQ2296901

Patrick van Meurs, Adriana Garroni, Lucia Scardia, Mark A. Peletier

Publication date: 18 February 2020

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the question of convergence of evolving interacting particle systems as the number of particles tends to infinity. We consider two types of particles, called positive and negative. Same-sign particles repel each other, and opposite-sign particles attract each other. The interaction potential is the same for all particles, up to the sign, and has a logarithmic singularity at zero. The central example of such systems is that of dislocations in crystals. Because of the singularity in the interaction potential, the discrete evolution leads to blow-up in finite time. We remedy this situation by regularising the interaction potential at a length-scale $delt{a}_n>0$, which converges to zero as the number of particles $n$ tends to infinity. We establish two main results. The first one is an evolutionary convergence result showing that the empirical measures of the positive and of the negative particles converge to a solution of a set of coupled PDEs which describe the evolution of their continuum densities. In the setting of dislocations these PDEs are known as the Groma-Balogh equations. In the proof we rely on the theory of $lambda$-convex gradient flows, a priori estimates for the Groma-Balogh equations and Orlicz spaces. The proof require $delt{a}_n$ to converge to zero sufficiently slowly. The second result is a counterexample, demonstrating that if $delt{a}_n$ converges to zero sufficiently fast, then the limits of the empirical measures of the positive and the negative dislocations do not satisfy the Groma-Balogh equations. These results show how the validity of the Groma-Balogh equations as the limit of many-particle systems depends in a subtle way on the scale at which the singularity of the potential is regularised.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04934

zbMATH Keywords

blow-upvariational methodsdiscrete-to-continuum limitsinteracting particle systemsGamma convergencedislocations in crystalsGroma-Balogh equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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