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The quantum version of the Boltzmann transport equation (Wigner-Boltzmann equation) is a quite useful tool to investigate the effects of energy dissipation in quantum systems. Numerical approaches uses to be employed in order to stablish a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 A. R. Fernandes Nt. , L. F. Santos

Analytical solutions to the microscopic Boltzmann equation are useful in testing the applicability and accuracy of macroscopic hydrodynamic theory. In this work, we present exact solutions of the relativistic Boltzmann equation, based on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

For the spatially inhomogeneous, non-cutoff Boltzmann equation posed in the whole space $\mathbb R^3_x$, we establish pointwise lower bounds that appear instantaneously even if the initial data contains vacuum regions. Our lower bounds…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

The paper considers a class of linear Boltzmann transport equations which models a charged particle transport. The equation is an approximation of the original exact transport equation which involves hyper-singular integrals in their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Jouko Tervo

As for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian molecules with the fractional Fokker-Planck diffusion term, we consider the Cauchy problem for its Fourier-transformed version, which can be viewed as a kinetic model for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Yong-Kum Cho

Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

We examine a Gelfand type system and show the extremal solutions are bounded provided we are close enough to the scalar case.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-24 Craig Cowan

The discrete Boltzmann equation for both the ideal and a non-ideal fluid is extended by adding Langevin noise terms in order to incorporate the effects of thermal fluctuations. After casting the fluctuating discrete Boltzmann equation in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 M. Gross , M. E. Cates , F. Varnik , R. Adhikari

A quantum linear Boltzmann equation is proposed, constructed in terms of the operator-valued dynamic structure factor of the macroscopic system the test particle is interacting with. Due to this operator structure it is a non-Abelian linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bassano Vacchini

Maxwell's velocity distribution is known to be universally valid across systems and phases. Here we present a new and general derivation that uses the central limit theorem (CLT) of the probability theory. This essentially uses the idea…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Sangita Mondal , Biman Bagchi

A linear Boltzmann equation is derived in the Boltzmann-Grad scaling for the deterministic dynamics of many interacting particles with random initial data. We study a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Karsten Matthies , George Stone , Florian Theil

In this note, we show that the Local Molecular Field theory of Weeks et. al. can be re-derived as an extremum problem for an approximate Helmholtz free energy. Using the resulting free energy as a classical, fluid density functional yields…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 David M. Rogers

We study the Cauchy problem for the Maxwell equations in the exterior region of Kerr black hole spacetimes. The equations are formulated for components of the Maxwell field relative to the algebraically special frame of Kerr, with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Gabriele Benomio , Rita Teixeira da Costa

This paper proves the existence of small-amplitude global-in-time unique mild solutions to both the Landau equation including the Coulomb potential and the Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff. Since the well-known works (Guo, 2002)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Shota Sakamoto , Robert M. Strain

Given two continuity equations with density-dependent velocities, we provide a new formula for the Wasserstein distance between the solutions in terms of the difference of velocities evaluated at the same density. The formula is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 José A. Carrillo , Piotr Gwiazda , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We derive the Boltzmann equation in the context of a gravity theory with non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. We show that as the energy-momentum tensor is not conserved in these theories, it follows a condition on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Orfeu Bertolami , Cláudio Gomes

We analyze Bergman spaces A p f (D) of generalized analytic functions of solutions to the Vekua equation $\partial$w = ($\partial$f /f)w in the unit disc of the complex plane, for Lipschitz-smooth non-vanishing real valued functions f and 1…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Briceyda Delgado , Juliette Leblond

We introduce a variational formulation of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, with hard-sphere cross section, which selects the unique energy conserving solution. We prove that this solution arises from the microscopic dynamics, namely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Carlo Orrieri

The Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell models is considered in order to investigate the dynamics of an impurity (or intruder) immersed in a granular gas driven by a uniform shear flow. The analysis is based on an exact solution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Garzó , E. Trizac

We consider the Boltzmann equation in convex domain with non-isothermal boundary of diffuse reflection. For both unsteady/steady problems, we construct solutions belong to $W^{1,p}_x$ for any $p<3$. We prove that the unsteady solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Hongxu Chen , Chanwoo Kim