Well-posedness of the limiting equation of a noisy consensus model in opinion dynamics

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2017.02.036zbMath1367.35181arXiv1510.06487MaRDI QIDQ525973

Quan-sen Jiu, Chu Wang, Bernard Chazelle, Qianxiao Li

Publication date: 8 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06487

zbMATH Keywords

global stability; well-posedness; nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation; Hegselmann-Krause model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B65: Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

82C31: Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics

35A01: Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence

91D10: Models of societies, social and urban evolution

35D30: Weak solutions to PDEs

35R09: Integro-partial differential equations

35A02: Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness

35Q84: Fokker-Planck equations