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A recursive algorithm and a series expansion related to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff

Analysis of PDEs 2017-04-03 v1

Abstract

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff. This equation has a unique conservative weak solution (ft)t0(f_t)_{t\geq 0}, once the initial condition f0f_0 with finite mass and energy is fixed. Taking advantage of the energy conservation, we propose a recursive algorithm that produces a (0,)×R3(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^3 random variable (Mt,Vt)(M_t,V_t) such that E[Mt1{Vt}]=ftE[M_t {\bf 1}_{\{V_t \in \cdot\}}]=f_t. We also write down a series expansion of ftf_t. Although both the algorithm and the series expansion might be theoretically interesting in that they explicitly express ftf_t in terms of f0f_0, we believe that the algorithm is not very efficient in practice and that the series expansion is rather intractable. This is a tedious extension to non-Maxwellian molecules of Wild's sum and of its interpretation by McKean.

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@article{arxiv.1703.10874,
  title  = {A recursive algorithm and a series expansion related to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff},
  author = {Nicolas Fournier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10874},
  year   = {2017}
}