In this article, we investigate the asymptotic formation of consensus for
several classes of time-dependent cooperative graphon dynamics. After
motivating the use of this type of macroscopic models to describe multi-agent
systems, we adapt the classical notion of scrambling coefficient to this
setting, leverage it to establish sufficient conditions ensuring the
exponential convergence to consensus with respect to the L∞-norm
topology. We then shift our attention to consensus formation expressed in terms
of the L2-norm, and prove three different consensus result for symmetric,
balanced and strongly connected topologies, which involve a suitable
generalisation of the notion of algebraic connectivity to this
infinite-dimensional framework. We then show that, just as in the
finite-dimensional setting, the notion of algebraic connectivity that we
propose encodes information about the connectivity properties of the underlying
interaction topology. We finally use the corresponding results to shed some
light on the relation between L2- and L∞-consensus formation, and
illustrate our contributions by a series of numerical simulations.Comment: 48 pages, 16 figure