On the Euler-Alignment system with weakly singular communication weights

Abstract

We study the pressureless Euler equations with nonlocal alignment interactions, which arises as a macroscopic representation of complex biological systems modeling animal flocks. For such Euler-Alignment system with bounded interactions, a critical threshold phenomenon is proved by Tadmor-Tan in 2014, where global regularity depends on initial data. With strongly singular interactions, global regularity is obtained by Do-Kiselev-Ryzhik-Tan in 2018, for all initial data. We consider the remaining case when the interaction is weakly singular. We show a critical threshold, similar to the system with bounded interaction. However, different global behaviors may happen for critical initial data, which reveals the unique structure of the weakly singular alignment operator.