TY - JOUR
T1 - MEAN-FIELD LIMIT OF NONEXCHANGEABLE INTERACTING DIFFUSIONS WITH SINGULAR KERNELS
AU - Wang, Zhenfu
AU - Zhao, Xianliang
AU - Zhao, Xianliang
AU - Zhu, Rongchan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - The mean-field limit of interacting diffusions without exchangeability, caused by weighted interactions and non-i.i.d. initial values, are investigated. The weights could be signed and unbounded. The result applies to a large class of singular kernels including the Biot-Savart law. We demonstrate a flexible type of mean-field convergence, in contrast to the typical conver gence of (Formula Presented). More specifically, the sequence of signed empirical measure processes with arbitrary uniform (Formula Presented), weakly converges to a coupled PDE's, such as the dynamics describing the passive scalar advected by the 2D Navier-Stokes equation. Our method is based on a tightness/compactness argument and makes use of the systems' uniform Fisher information. The main difficulty is to determine how to propagate the regularity properties of the limits of empirical measures in the absence of the DeFinetti-Hewitt-Savage theorem for the nonexchangeable case. To this end, a sequence of random measures, which merges weakly with a sequence of weighted empirical measures and has uniform Sobolev regularity, is constructed through the disintegration of the joint laws of particles.
AB - The mean-field limit of interacting diffusions without exchangeability, caused by weighted interactions and non-i.i.d. initial values, are investigated. The weights could be signed and unbounded. The result applies to a large class of singular kernels including the Biot-Savart law. We demonstrate a flexible type of mean-field convergence, in contrast to the typical conver gence of (Formula Presented). More specifically, the sequence of signed empirical measure processes with arbitrary uniform (Formula Presented), weakly converges to a coupled PDE's, such as the dynamics describing the passive scalar advected by the 2D Navier-Stokes equation. Our method is based on a tightness/compactness argument and makes use of the systems' uniform Fisher information. The main difficulty is to determine how to propagate the regularity properties of the limits of empirical measures in the absence of the DeFinetti-Hewitt-Savage theorem for the nonexchangeable case. To this end, a sequence of random measures, which merges weakly with a sequence of weighted empirical measures and has uniform Sobolev regularity, is constructed through the disintegration of the joint laws of particles.
KW - 2D Navier-Stokes equation
KW - interacting particle systems
KW - mean-field limit
KW - passive scalar turbulence
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105041430949
U2 - 10.1137/24M168129X
DO - 10.1137/24M168129X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105041430949
SN - 0036-1410
VL - 58
SP - 2375
EP - 2418
JO - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
JF - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
IS - 3
ER -