Special Session 22: Models of emergence and collective dynamics

Finite speed of propagation in the one-dimensional pressureless Euler alignment system
Szymon Cygan
University of Heidelberg
Poland
Co-Author(s):    Szymon Cygan, Bartosz Drzygala, Grzegorz Karch
Abstract:
In this talk, I will present recent results on the one-dimensional pressureless Euler alignment system with a strongly singular interaction kernel and initial data allowing vacuum \begin{align*} \rho_t + (\rho u)_x &= 0 , \ u_t + u u_x &= - \Lambda^\alpha (\rho u) + u\,\Lambda^\alpha \rho. \end{align*} Building on a previously developed framework for the case $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we extend the analysis to the full range $\alpha \in (0,2)$. We work under the structural condition imposed on the initial data, \begin{align*} 0 \leqslant G_0(x) \leqslant a\,\rho_0(x) \quad \text{where} \quad G_0 = \partial_x u_0 - \Lambda^\alpha \rho_0, \end{align*} which determines an admissible class of initial velocity profiles and is propagated by the dynamics. I will discuss the construction of global weak solutions corresponding to compactly supported initial data and show that the support remains compact for all times. Moreover, I will explain how finite speed of propagation can be established by adapting barrier arguments and contact analysis techniques from the theory of nonlocal porous medium equations.