Abstract
We consider a new approach to the description of the collective behavior of complex systems of mathematical biology based on the evolution equations for observables of such systems. This representation of the kinetic evolution seems, in fact, the direct mathematically fully consistent formulation modeling the collective behavior of biological systems since the traditional notion of the state in kinetic theory is more subtle and it is an implicit characteristic of the populations of living creatures.
Keywords
- kinetic equation
- marginal observables
- scaling limit
- active soft matter
1. Introduction
The rigorous derivation of kinetic equations for soft condensed matter remains an open problem so far. It should be noted wide applications of these evolution equations to the description of collective processes of various nature [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], in particular, the collective behavior of complex systems of mathematical biology [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]. We emphasize that the considerable advance in solving the problem of rigorous modeling of the kinetic evolution of systems with a large number of constituents (entities) of mathematical biology, in particular, systems of large number of cells, is recently observed [20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26] (and see references cited therein).
In modern research, the main approach to the problem of the rigorous derivation of kinetic equation consists in the construction of scaling limits of a solution of evolution equations which describe the evolution of states of a many-particle system, in particular, a perturbative solution of the corresponding BBGKY hierarchy [2, 3, 4].
In this chapter, we review a new approach to the description of the collective behavior of complex systems of mathematical biology [17, 18] within the framework of the evolution of observables. This representation of the kinetic evolution seems, in fact, the direct mathematically fully consistent formulation modeling kinetic evolution of biological systems since the notion of the state is more subtle and it is an implicit characteristic of populations of living creatures.
One of the advantages of the developed approach is the opportunity to construct kinetic equations in scaling limits, involving initial correlations, in particular, that can characterize the condensed states of soft matter. We note also that such approach is also related to the problem of a rigorous derivation of the non-Markovian kinetic-type equations from underlying many-cell dynamics which make it possible to describe the memory effects of the kinetic evolution of cells.
Using suggested approach, we establish a mean field asymptotic behavior of the hierarchy of evolution equations for marginal observables of a large system of interacting stochastic processes of collisional kinetic theory [24], modeling the microscopic evolution of active soft condensed matter [14, 15]. The constructed scaling limit of a non-perturbative solution of this hierarchy is governed by the set of recurrence evolution equations, namely, by the dual Vlasov hierarchy for interacting stochastic processes.
Furthermore, we established that for initial states specified by means of a one-particle distribution function and correlation functions the evolution of additive-type marginal observables is equivalent to a solution of the Vlasov-type kinetic equation with initial correlations, and a mean field asymptotic behavior of non-additive-type marginal observables is equivalent to the sequence of explicitly defined correlation functions which describe the propagation of initial correlations of active soft condensed matter.
2. On collisional dynamics of active soft condensed matter and the evolution of marginal observables
The many-constituent systems of active soft condensed matter [14, 15] are dynamical systems displaying a collective behavior which differs from the statistical behavior of usual gases [2, 4]. In the first place, their own distinctive features are connected with the fact that their constituents (entities or self-propelled particles) show the ability to retain various complexity features [14, 15, 16, 17, 18]. To specify such nature of entities, we consider the dynamical system suggested in papers [13, 24, 29] which is based on the Markov jump processes that must represent the intrinsic properties of living creatures.
A description of many-constituent systems is formulated in terms of two sets of objects: observables and states. The functional of the mean value of observables defines a duality between observables and states and as a consequence there exist two approaches to the description of the evolution of such systems, namely in terms of the evolution equations for observables and for states. In this section, we adduce some preliminary facts about dynamics of finitely many entities of various subpopulations described within the framework of non-equilibrium grand canonical ensemble [2].
We consider a system of entities of various
where
where
In case of
On the space
The observables of a system of a non-fixed number of entities of various subpopulations are the sequences
that is, they are the corresponding solution of the Cauchy problem of the Liouville equations (or the Kolmogorov forward equation) with corresponding initial data
or in case of
The average values of observables (mean values of observables) are determined by the following positive continuous linear functional defined on the space
where
Let
where
As a consequence of the validity for functional (2) of the following equality:
where
where the generator
where the functions
The function
On the space
For the description of microscopic behavior of many-entity systems we also introduce the hierarchies of evolution equations for marginal observables and marginal distribution functions known as the dual BBGKY hierarchy and the BBGKY hierarchy, respectively [26]. These hierarchies are constructed as the evolution equations for one more method of the description of observables and states of finitely many entities.
An equivalent approach to the description of observables and states of many-entity systems is given in terms of marginal observables
Considering formula (2), marginal observables and marginal distribution functions are introduced according to the equality:
where (
Thus, the relationship of marginal distribution functions
and, respectively, the marginal observables are determined in terms of observables as follows:
Two equivalent approaches to the description of the evolution of many interacting entities are the consequence of the validity of the following equality for the functional of mean values of marginal observables:
where
We remark that the evolution of many-entity systems is usually described within the framework of the evolution of states by the sequence
The evolution of a non-fixed number of interacting entities of various subpopulations within the framework of marginal observables (4) is described by the Cauchy problem of the dual BBGKY hierarchy [25]:
where on
the operator
In the componentwise form, the abstract hierarchy (5) has the form:
where the operators Λ
A solution
where the (1 +
the sets of indexes are denoted by
The simplest examples of expansions for marginal observables (9) have the following form:
and, respectively:
For initial data
We note that a one-component sequence of marginal observables corresponds to observables of certain structure, namely the marginal observable
In the case of
and, if 1 ≤
We remark also that expansion (9) can be also represented in the form of the perturbation (iteration) series [25] as a result of applying of analogs of the Duhamel equation to cumulants of semigroups of operators (10).
3. A mean field asymptotic behavior of the marginal observables and the kinetic evolution of states
To consider mesoscopic properties of a large system of interacting entities we develop an approach to the description of the kinetic evolution within the framework of the evolution equations for marginal observables. For this purpose we construct the mean field asymptotics [9] of a solution of the Cauchy problem of the dual BBGKY hierarchy for interacting entities, modeling of many-constituent systems of active soft condensed matter [26, 27].
We restrict ourself by the case of
Let for initial data
then for arbitrary finite time interval there exists a mean field limit of solution (9) of the Cauchy problem of the dual BBGKY hierarchy for interacting entities (7), (8) in the sense of the ∗-weak convergence of the space
where the limit sequence
In particular, the limit marginal observable
for example,
The proof of this statement is based on the corresponding formulas for cumulants of asymptotically perturbed semigroups of operators (10).
If
where in recurrence evolution Eq. (14) the operators Λ[1](
Further we consider initial states specified by a one-particle marginal distribution function in the presence of correlations, namely
where the bounded functions
If
Then for the mean-value functionals of the limit initial additive-type marginal observables, i.e. of the sequences
In equality (17) the function
and the limit one-particle distribution function
where the operators Λ∗[
where the functions
For initial data
where the function
For mean value functionals of the limit initial
where the limit one-particle marginal distribution function
Hence in case of
In case of initial states of statistically independent entities specified by a one-particle marginal distribution function, namely
We note that, according to equality (21), in the mean field limit the marginal correlation functions defined as cluster expansions of marginal distribution functions [30, 33, 34] namely,
has the following explicit form [27]:
where for initial correlation functions (16) it is used the following notations:
the symbol ∑P means the sum over possible partitions P of the set of arguments (
Thus, an equivalent approach to the description of the kinetic evolution of large number of interacting constituents in terms of the Vlasov-type kinetic equation with correlations (19) is given by the dual Vlasov hierarchy (14) for the additive-type marginal observables.
4. The non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations
Furthermore, the relationships between the evolution of observables of a large number of interacting constituents of active soft condensed matter and the kinetic evolution of its states described in terms of a one-particle marginal distribution function are discussed.
Since many-particle systems in condensed states are characterized by correlations we consider initial states specified by a one-particle marginal distribution function and correlation functions, namely
If the initial state is completely specified by a one-particle distribution function and a sequence of correlation functions (23), then, using a non-perturbative solution of the dual BBGKY hierarchy (9), in [31, 32] it was proved that all possible states at the arbitrary moment of time can be described within the framework of a one-particle distribution function governed by the non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations, i.e. without any approximations like in scaling limits as above.
Indeed, for initial states (23) for mean value functional (4) the equality holds
where
The generating operator
The marginal functionals of the state is defined by the series expansions:
where the following notations used:
where
If
The proof of equality (24) is based on the application of cluster expansions to generating operators (10) of expansions (9) which are dual to the kinetic cluster expansions introduced in paper [35]. Then the adjoint series expansion can be expressed in terms of one-particle distribution function (25) in the form of the functional from the right-hand side of equality (24).
We emphasize that marginal functionals of the state (26) characterize the processes of the creation of correlations generated by dynamics of many-constituent systems of active soft condensed matter and the propagation of initial correlations.
For small initial data
For initial data
In particular case
where the functions
We note that for initial states (23) specified by a one-particle (marginal) distribution function, the evolution of states described within the framework of a one-particle (marginal) distribution function governed by the generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations (28) is dual to the dual BBGKY hierarchy for additive-type marginal observables with respect to bilinear form (2), and it is completely equivalent to the description of states in terms of marginal distribution functions governed by the BBGKY hierarchy of interacting entities.
Thus, the evolution of many-constituent systems of active soft condensed matter described in terms of marginal observables in case of initial states (23) can be also described within the framework of a one-particle (marginal) distribution function governed by the non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations (28).
We remark, considering that a mean field limit of initial state (23) is described by sequence (16), a mean field asymptotics of a solution of the non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations (28) is governed by the Vlasov-type kinetic equation with initial correlations (19) derived above from the dual Vlasov hierarchy (14) for limit marginal observables of interacting entities [27]. Moreover, a mean field asymptotic behavior of marginal functionals of the state (26) describes the propagation in time of initial correlations like established property (22).
5. Conclusion
We considered an approach to the description of kinetic evolution of large number of interacting constituents (entities) of active soft condensed matter within the framework of the evolution of marginal observables of these systems. Such representation of the kinetic evolution seems, in fact, the direct mathematically fully consistent formulation modeling the collective behavior of biological systems since the notion of state is more subtle and implicit characteristic of living creatures.
A mean field scaling asymptotics of non-perturbative solution (9) of the dual BBGKY hierarchy (7) for marginal observables was constructed. The constructed scaling limit of a non-perturbative solution (9) is governed by the set of recurrence evolution equations (14), namely, by the dual Vlasov hierarchy for interacting stochastic processes modeling large particle systems of active soft condensed matter.
We established that the limit additive-type marginal observables governed by the dual Vlasov hierarchy (14) gives an equivalent approach to the description of the kinetic evolution of many entities in terms of a one-particle distribution function governed by the Vlasov kinetic equation with initial correlations (19). Moreover, the kinetic evolution of non-additive-type marginal observables governed by the dual Vlasov hierarchy means the property of the propagation of initial correlations (22) within the framework of the evolution of states.
One of the advantages of suggested approach in comparison with the conventional approach of the kinetic theory [2, 3, 4] is the possibility to construct kinetic equations in various scaling limits in the presence of initial correlations which can characterize the analogs of condensed states of many-particle systems of statistical mechanics for interacting entities of complex biological systems.
We note that the developed approach is also related to the problem of a rigorous derivation of the non-Markovian kinetic-type equations from underlying many-entity dynamics which make it possible to describe the memory effects of collective dynamics of complex systems modeling active soft condensed matter.
In case of initial states completely specified by a one-particle distribution function and correlations (23), using a non-perturbative solution of the dual BBGKY hierarchy (9), it was proved that all possible states at the arbitrary moment of time can be described within the framework of a one-particle distribution function governed by the non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations (28), i.e. without any approximations. A mean field asymptotics of a solution of kinetic equation with initial correlations (28) is governed by the Vlasov-type kinetic equation with initial correlations (19) derived above from the dual Vlasov hierarchy (14) for limit marginal observables.
Moreover, in the case under consideration the processes of the creation of correlations generated by dynamics of large particle systems of active soft condensed matter and the propagation of initial correlations are described by the constructed marginal functionals of the state (26) governed by the non-Markovian generalized kinetic equation with initial correlations (28).
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