Global Well-posedness of the Spatially Homogeneous Kolmogorov–Vicsek Model as a Gradient Flow

Abstract

We consider the so-called spatially homogenous Kolmogorov–Vicsek model, a non-linear Fokker–Planck equation of self-driven stochastic particles with orientation interaction under the space-homogeneity. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the equation. We also show that weak solutions exponentially converge to a steady state, which has the form of the Fisher-von Mises distribution.