The $s$-Energy and Its Applications
| Autor: | Chazelle, Bernard, Karntikoon, Kritkorn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Averaging dynamics drives countless processes in physics, biology, engineering, and the social sciences. In recent years, the $s$-energy has emerged as a useful tool for bounding the convergence rates of time-varying averaging systems. We derive new bounds on the $s$-energy, which we use to resolve a number of open questions in the areas of bird flocking, opinion dynamics, and distributed motion coordination. We also use our results to provide a theoretical validation for the idea of the "Overton Window" as an attracting manifold of viable group opinions. Our new bounds on the $s$-energy highlight its dependency on the connectivity of the underlying networks. In this vein, we use the $s$-energy to explain the exponential gap in the convergence rates of stationary and time-varying consensus systems. Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2207.00213 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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