Flocking and concentration behavior for the stochastic Cucker-Smale system in a harmonic field

Abstract: We consider the Cucker-Smale system with multiplicative noise in a harmonic potential field and investigate the effect of harmonic potential field. In the presence of external potential force, the system is expected to emerge into almost surely velocity flocking and spatial concentration, due to the alignment mechanism, confining harmonic potential field and multiplicative noise. By constructing a stochastic Lyapunov functional, we derive a sufficient condition for the almost surely flocking and concentration behavior for the stochastic particle model, and verify it numerically. Then, we discuss the flocking and concentration behavior for the mean field Vlasov-type kinetic model. Moreover, a rigorous analysis of the uniform mean-field limit estimate for the limit process from the stochastic model to the kinetic one is provided.