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Existence and uniqueness of $L^p$ solutions to the Boltzmann equation with an angle-potential concentrated collision kernel

Analysis of PDEs 2016-11-22 v1

Abstract

We solve the Cauchy problem associated to the space homogeneous Boltzmann equation with an angle-potential singular concentration modeling the collision kernel, proposed in 2013 by Bobylev and Potapenko. The potential under consideration ranges from Coulomb to hard spheres cases. However, the motivation of such a collision kernel is to treat the case of Coulomb potentials, on which this particular form of collision operator is well defined. We also show that the scaled angle-potential singular concentration in a grazing collisions limit makes the Boltzmann operator converge in the sense of distributions to the Landau operator acting on the Boltzmann solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06316,
  title  = {Existence and uniqueness of $L^p$ solutions to the Boltzmann equation with an angle-potential concentrated collision kernel},
  author = {S. Akopian and I. M. Gamba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06316},
  year   = {2016}
}

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32 pages