Classical limit of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system
Analysis of PDEs
2025-11-25 v1
Abstract
The physical essence of the non-relativistic limit, from the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system to the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, lies in the transition from finite-speed electromagnetic waves to instantaneous Coulomb interactions, and from relativistic to Newtonian particle dynamics. We rigorously justify this limit (mathematically corresponding to the light speed ) in a periodic box via three key technical advances: establishing a uniform-in- coercivity estimate for the relativistic Landau collision operator, constructing a novel weighted energy functional to overcome the weakening dissipation of the electromagnetic field at large , and proving a corresponding global well-posedness result.
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@article{arxiv.2511.18500,
title = {Classical limit of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system},
author = {Chuqi Cao and Ling-Bing He and Yuanjie Lei and Qinghua Xiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18500},
year = {2025}
}