Well-posedness of an interaction model on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

We investigate a model for collective behaviour with intrinsic interactions on smooth Riemannian manifolds. For regular interaction potentials, we establish the local well-posedness of measure-valued solutions defined via optimal mass transport. We also extend our result to the global well-posedness of solutions for manifolds with nonpositive bounded sectional curvature. The core concept underlying the proofs is that of Lipschitz continuous vector fields in the sense of parallel transport.

Body-attitude coordination in arbitrary dimension

“…The interplay between geometry and collective dynamics has recently appeared in the literature. In [2,36,37,58,60], collective dynamics models are considered where the particles are located on generic manifolds. Restrictions to specific manifolds are considered.…”