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Finiteness of entropy for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation with measure initial condition

Mathematical Physics 2015-03-17 v2 math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider the 3D3D spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for (true) hard and moderately soft potentials. We assume that the initial condition is a probability measure with finite energy and is not a Dirac mass. For hard potentials, we prove that any reasonable weak solution immediately belongs to some Besov space. For moderately soft potentials, we assume additionally that the initial condition has a moment of sufficiently high order (88 is enough) and prove the existence of a solution that immediately belongs to some Besov space. The considered solutions thus instantaneously become functions with a finite entropy. We also prove that in any case, any weak solution is immediately supported by R3{\mathbb {R}}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0130,
  title  = {Finiteness of entropy for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation with measure initial condition},
  author = {Nicolas Fournier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0130},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AAP1012 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)