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Flocking in noisy environments

Felipe Cucker·Ernesto Mordecki
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We consider a perturbed version of the dynamics of a flock introduced by Cucker and Smale ("Emergent behaviour in flocks") and prove, under similar conditions, that nearly-alignment (a concept that is precised in the text) is achieved with a certain probability, bounded from below.

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Felipe Cucker, Ernesto Mordecki. 2007-06-22. Flocking in noisy environments. https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3343

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