{"title":"Graph limit of the consensus model with self-delay","authors":"Jan Haskovec","doi":"10.1088/1751-8121/ad6ab1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is known that models of interacting agents with self-delay (reaction-type delay) do not admit, in general, the classical mean-field limit description in terms of a Fokker–Planck equation. In this paper we propose the graph limit of the nonlinear consensus model with self-delay as an alternative continuum description and study its mathematical properties. We establish the well-posedness of the resulting integro-differential equation in the Lebesgue <italic toggle=\"yes\">L<sup>p</sup></italic> space. We present a rigorous derivation of the graph limit from the discrete consensus system and derive a sufficient condition for reaching global asymptotic consensus. We also consider a linear variant of the model with a given interaction kernel, which can be interpreted as a dynamical system over a graphon. Here we derive an optimal (i.e. sufficient and necessary) condition for reaching global asymptotic consensus. Finally, we give a detailed explanation of how the presence of the self-delay term rules out a description of the mean-field limit in terms of a particle density governed by a Fokker–Planck-type equation. In particular, we show that the indistinguishability-of-particles property does not hold, which is one of the main ingredients for deriving the classical mean-field description.","PeriodicalId":16763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad6ab1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is known that models of interacting agents with self-delay (reaction-type delay) do not admit, in general, the classical mean-field limit description in terms of a Fokker–Planck equation. In this paper we propose the graph limit of the nonlinear consensus model with self-delay as an alternative continuum description and study its mathematical properties. We establish the well-posedness of the resulting integro-differential equation in the Lebesgue Lp space. We present a rigorous derivation of the graph limit from the discrete consensus system and derive a sufficient condition for reaching global asymptotic consensus. We also consider a linear variant of the model with a given interaction kernel, which can be interpreted as a dynamical system over a graphon. Here we derive an optimal (i.e. sufficient and necessary) condition for reaching global asymptotic consensus. Finally, we give a detailed explanation of how the presence of the self-delay term rules out a description of the mean-field limit in terms of a particle density governed by a Fokker–Planck-type equation. In particular, we show that the indistinguishability-of-particles property does not hold, which is one of the main ingredients for deriving the classical mean-field description.
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Publishing 50 issues a year, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is a major journal of theoretical physics reporting research on the mathematical structures that describe fundamental processes of the physical world and on the analytical, computational and numerical methods for exploring these structures.