Velocity-alignment entropy production

ID: velocity-alignment-entropy-production

For the mean-field alignment equation in position and velocity coordinates, put . Its force has velocity-space divergence . Consequently integration by parts gives the nonnegative derivative in the title, assuming suitable positivity, decay and integrability. The fine-grained Gibbs entropy decreases because these dynamics contract phase space; the interaction is dissipative.

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