Special Session 9: Stochastic Analysis and Large Scale Interacting Systems

Modulated Free Energy and Mean Field Limit

Zhenfu WANG
Peking University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Didier Bresch, Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin
Abstract:
We proves the mean field limit and quantitative estimates for many-particle systems with singular attractive interactions between particles. As an important example, a full rigorous derivation (with quantitative estimates) of the Patlak-Keller-Segel model in optimal subcritical regimes is obtained for the first time. To give an answer to this longstanding problem, we take advantage of a new modulated free energy and we prove some precise large deviation estimates encoding the competition between diffusion and attraction. This modulated free energy approach can also treat the systems with a wide range of repulsive kernels, including the vanishing viscosity case.