Well-posedness of Weak and Strong Solutions to the Kinetic Cucker-Smale Model

Abstract

We first prove the well-posedness of weak and strong solutions to the kinetic Cucker-Smale model in the Sobolev space with the initial data having compact velocity support. Then we study the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with noise. By introducing two weighted Hilbert spaces, we successfully establish the well-posedness of weak and strong solutions, respectively. Our proof is based on weighted energy estimates. Finally, we rigorously justify the vanishing noise limit.