ON FLOCKS UNDER SWITCHING DIRECTED INTERACTION TOPOLOGIES

Felipe CUCKER, Jiu-Gang DONG*

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Abstract

We prove unconditional and conditional flocking results for a Cucker-Smale flocking model enhanced with switching topologies. These topologies can be arbitrary; in particular, they are not necessarily symmetric. Our proofs hold for both discrete and continuous time. In both cases, the critical exponent discriminating between unconditional and conditional flocking is shown to be at most 1/2(k - 1) , where k is the number of agents in the population.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)95-110
JournalSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Volume79
Issue number1
Online published22 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2019

Research Keywords

  • Cucker-Smale model
  • flocking
  • switching topology

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