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Sharp regularity near the grazing set for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-05 v1

Abstract

We prove optimal regularity results for solutions to linear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in bounded domains. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we establish the sharp C1/2C^{1/2} regularity for either diffuse reflection or prescribed in-flow boundary conditions. Previously, in this setting, it was only known that solutions are CαC^{\alpha} for some small α>0\alpha > 0. Second, we provide a complete characterization of the solution behavior near the grazing set by proving higher order expansions beyond the critical regularity threshold of 12\frac{1}{2}. These results demonstrate for the first time that solutions maintain higher smoothness up to the grazing set near the incoming boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2603.04121,
  title  = {Sharp regularity near the grazing set for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations},
  author = {Kyeongbae Kim and Marvin Weidner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04121},
  year   = {2026}
}

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112 pages