Global-in-time mean-field convergence for singular Riesz-type diffusive flows

Abstract

We consider the mean-field limit of systems of particles with singular interactions of the type $-\log |x|$ or $|x{|}^{-s}$, with $0<s<d-2$, and with an additive noise in dimensions $d\ge 3$. We use a modulated-energy approach to prove a quantitative convergence rate to the solution of the corresponding limiting PDE. When $s>0$, the convergence is global in time, and it is the first such result valid for both conservative and gradient flows in a singular setting on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The proof relies on an adaptation of an argument of Carlen-Loss to show a decay rate of the solution to the limiting equation, and on an improvement of the modulated-energy method developed in arXiv:1508.03377, arXiv:1803.08345, arXiv:2107.02592 making it so that all prefactors in the time derivative of the modulated energy are controlled by a decaying bound on the limiting solution.

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