Special Session 105: Dynamics of Many-Particle Systems and Mean-field Equations

On the Diffusive-Mean Field limit of Kinetic Interacting Particle Systems
Grigorios A Pavliotis
Imperial College London
England
Co-Author(s):    R. Gastaldello, G. Stoltz, and U. Vaes
Abstract:
We study the joint diffusive-mean field limit for a system of weakly interacting kinetic Langevin dynamics. We show that, in the absence of phase transitions, the two limits commute, and we calculate the covariance matrix of the limiting Brownian motion using the Green-Kubo/Kipnis-Varadhan formula. However, at low temperatures, and in the presence of phase transitions, the two limits may not commute. We demonstrate our findings by providing a detailed analysis of the diffusive-mean field limit for the $O(2)$ model in a magnetic field. Our analysis is based on the systematic use of recently developed hypocoercivity techniques, together with an appropriate linearization of the mean field McKean-Vlasov-Fokker-Planck PDE.