Journal article
INTERACTING MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT PARTICLE TYPES CONVERGE TO A SORTED STATE
We consider a model class of interacting many-particle systems consisting of different types of particles defined by a gradient flow. The corresponding potential expresses attractive and repulsive interactions between particles of the same type and different types, respectively. The introduced system converges by self-organized pattern formation to a sorted state where particles of the same type share a common position and those of different types are separated from each other.
This is proved in the sense that we show that the property of being sorted is asymptotically stable and all other states are unstable. The models are motivated from physics, chemistry, and biology, and the principal investigations can be useful for many systems with interacting particles or agents. The models match particularly well a system in neuroscience, namely the axonal pathfinding and sorting in the olfactory system of vertebrates.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
Year: | 2010 |
Pages: | 2534-2555 |
ISSN: | 1095712x and 00361399 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1137/070700693 |
ORCIDs: | Starke, Jens |