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A linear Boltzmann equation is interpreted as the forward equation for the probability density of a Markov process (K(t), i(t), Y(t)), where (K(t), i(t)) is an autonomous reversible jump process, with waiting times between two jumps with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Giada Basile

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new characterization of the characteristic functions for the study on the measure valued solution to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation so that it precisely captures the moment constraint in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Yoshinori Morimoto , Shuaikun Wang , Tong Yang

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental kinetic equation that describes the dynamics of dilute gas. In this paper we study the local well-posedness of the Boltzmann equation in bounded domain with the Cercignani-Lampis boundary condition,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Hongxu Chen

We obtain finite-time existence for the massless Boltzmann equation, with a range of soft cross-sections, in an FLRW background with data given at the initial singularity. In the case of positive cosmological constant we obtain long-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , Paul Tod

This paper is to study the inelastic Boltzmann equation without Grad's angular cutoff assumption, where the well-posedness theory of the solution to the initial value problem is established for the Maxwellian molecules in a space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Kunlun Qi

A basic question about regularity of Boltzmann solutions in the presence of physical boundary conditions has been open due to characteristic nature of the boundary as well as the non-local mixing of the collision operator. Consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Daniela Tonon , Ariane Trescases

In this paper, we study the homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation for hard spheres. We first prove that the solution $f(t,v)$ is bounded pointwise from above by $C_{f_0}\langle t \rangle^3$ and establish that the cooling time is infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Gayoung An , Jin Woo Jang , Donghyun Lee

Since the work [13] by Guo [Invent. Math. 153 (2003), no. 3, 593--630], how to establish the global existence of perturbative classical solutions around a global Maxwellian to the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system with the whole range of soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Renjun Duan , Yuanjie Lei , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

One of classical boundary problems of the kinetic theory (a problem about thermal sliding) of the rarefied gas along a flat firm surface is considered. Kinetic Boltzmann equation with model integral of collisions BGK (Bhatnagar, Gross,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-18 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov , E. E. Korneeva

This paper proves the existence of weak solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules, when the initial data are chosen from the space of all Borel probability measures on R^3 with finite second moments…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Emanuele Dolera

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem on the Boltzmann equation in the whole space. The goal is to construct global-in-time bounded mild solutions near Maxwellians with the perturbation admitting a polynomial tail in large velocities.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li , Shuangqian Liu

The paper proves existence of renormalized stationary solutions for a dense class of discrete velocity Boltzmann equations in the plane with given ingoing boundary values. The proof is based on the construction of a sequence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 L. Arkeryd , A. Nouri

The generalized linear Boltzmann equation (GLBE) is a recently developed framework based on non-classical transport theory for modeling the expected value of particle flux in an arbitrary stochastic medium. Provided with a non-classical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ari Frankel

Let rarefied gas be confined in an infinite layer with diffusely reflecting boundaries that are isothermal and non-moving. The initial-boundary value problem on the nonlinear Boltzmann equation governing the rarefied gas flow in such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Junhao Zhang

Boltzmann's equation provides a microscopic model for the evolution of dilute classical gases. A fundamental problem in mathematical physics is to rigorously derive Boltzmann's equation starting from Newton's laws. In the 1970s, Oscar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Ryan Denlinger

In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation in a close to the hydrodynamic limit regime, set in bounded spatial domains with non-isothermal Maxwell boundary conditions. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 R Medina

Boltzmann equation describes the time development of the velocity distribution in the continuum fluid matter. We formulate the equation using the field theory where the {\it velocity-field} plays the central role. The matter (constituent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-10 Shoichi Ichinose

We study the long-time dynamics of the time-evolutionary Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisions in the three-dimensional half-space \( \mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{R}^+\), subject to diffuse reflection boundary conditions and small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Hongxu Chen , Jun-ling Chen , Renjun Duan

We prove that solutions to the Boltzmann equation without cut-off satisfying pointwise bounds on some observables (mass, pressure, and suitable moments) enjoy a uniform bound in $L^\infty$ in the case of hard potentials. As a consequence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

In a general $C^1$ domain, we study the perturbative Cauchy theory for the Boltzmann equation with Maxwell boundary conditions with an accommodation coefficient $\alpha$ in $(\sqrt{2/3},1]$, and discuss this threshold. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Marc Briant , Yan Guo