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 regularity for either diffuse reflection or prescribed in-flow boundary conditions. Previously, in this setting, it was only known that solutions are for some small . 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 . 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