The Watanabe-Strogatz transform and constant of motion functionals for kinetic vector models

Abstract: We present a kinetic version of the Watanabe-Strogatz(WS) transform for vector models in this paper. From the generalized WS-transform, we obtain the cross-ratio type constant of motion functionals for kinetic vector models under suitable conditions. We present the sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of the suggested constant of motion functional. As an application of the constant of motion functional, we provide the instability of bipolar states of the kinetic swarm sphere model. We also provide the WS-transform and constant of motion functional for non-identical kinetic vector models.