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The Homogeneous Landau Equation with Regularised Thermal Noise

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-24 v1 Probability

Abstract

We introduce and analyze a fluctuating homogeneous Landau equation with regularised thermal noise. The model is motivated by the nonlocal gradient flow structure of the deterministic Landau equation, the fluctuation--dissipation principle, and the covariance of the martingale fluctuations of a Kac-like conservative Landau particle system. The noise is written in Landau-divergence form, is antisymmetric in the pair of velocities, and is interpreted in the Stratonovich sense after introducing a velocity correlation. To handle the vacuum singularity of the square-root mobility and the nonlocal Stratonovich-to-It\^o correction, we replace the mobility by a regular coefficient. For moderately soft potentials, we prove the existence of probabilistic weak solutions to the regularised fluctuating homogeneous Landau equation. The proof is based on a three-level approximation scheme combining Galerkin approximations, coefficient regularisations, artificial diffusion, and compactness in both L2L^2 and L1L^1 frameworks. The solutions satisfy mass conservation, an energy inequality, and the entropy dissipation estimate. Finally, for a special class of admissible noise bases satisfying a tangential divergence-free condition, we obtain a refined entropy inequality in which the expected entropy is non-increasing relative to the initial entropy.

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@article{arxiv.2607.22329,
  title  = {The Homogeneous Landau Equation with Regularised Thermal Noise},
  author = {Manh Hong Duong and Zihui He and Zhengyan Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22329},
  year   = {2026}
}

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102 pages