Special Session 75: 

Limiting dynamics of a system of N particles interacting via attractive/repulsive potentials.

Maria Stella Gelli
University of Pisa
Italy
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Abstract:
We study the limit as the number of particles goes to infinity of the dynamics of a system of $N$ particles moving through velocity fields of convolution type and subject to an additional separation constraint (hard-spheres model). This can be formalised by introducing a suitable control problem and assuming that the velocity fields are Lipschitz regular. The limiting dynamics is then described by a particle density $\rho(t,x)$ satisfying a suitable continuity equation of Vlasov type an uniform upper bound.