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These results are compared with results obtained earlier for the model with agents belonging to a one-dimensional space and are then explored for the case of an infinite number of agents. For the particular case of a spherically symmetric configuration of an infinite number of agents a rigorous analysis of the relations governing the asymptotic velocities is possible, assuming that a continuity property established for the finite case remains true for the infinite case. This leads to a characterization of the onset of cluster formation in terms of the evolution of the cluster size with varying coupling strength. A remarkable point is that the cluster formation process depends critically on the dimension of the agent state space; considering the cluster size as an order parameter, the cluster formation in the one-dimensional case may be seen as a second-order phase transition, while the multidimensional case is associated with a first-order phase transition. 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