Emergent behaviors of the kinetic Motsch-Tadmor model in a phase-spatially extended setting

@misc{ha2026emergent,
  title = {{Emergent behaviors of the kinetic Motsch-Tadmor model in a phase-spatially extended setting}},
  author = {Seung-Yeal Ha and Xinyu Wang},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.17937},
  eprint = {2609.17937},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17937},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Emergent behaviors of the kinetic Motsch-Tadmor model in a phase-spatially extended setting
AU  - Seung-Yeal Ha
AU  - Xinyu Wang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.17937
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17937
AB  - The kinetic Motsch-Tadmor (in short, KMT) model is a kinetic flocking model with a normalized communication weight. In this paper, we study the emergent dynamics of the phase-spatially extended KMT model. We first establish a global well-posedness theory in the fully noncompact spatial-velocity setting. To this end, we introduce a direct Lagrangian formulation in which the unbounded part of the initial velocity distribution is separated from an interaction-generated bounded remainder. This decomposition allows us to construct global Lagrangian weak solutions without truncating the velocity distribution and to propagate finite phase-space moments. We then investigate the long-time collective behavior of the resulting solutions. When the initial velocity support is compact while the spatial support is allowed to be noncompact, a time-varying effective-region argument yields a uniform contraction mechanism for the normalized interaction and leads to exponential weak support flocking. When both the spatial and velocity supports are noncompact, support-level flocking is in general impossible. Nevertheless, the same effective-region mechanism, combined with the Lagrangian decomposition and a bootstrap argument for the interaction-generated remainder, yields exponential weak moment flocking. In particular, pairwise spatial moments remain uniformly controlled while velocity fluctuations converge exponentially to zero. These results provide a unified framework for the well-posedness and flocking dynamics of the KMT model beyond the compact-support regime.
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