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The Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation with soft potential, in the framework of small perturbation of an equilibrium state, has been studied in many spaces. The method of strongly continuous semigroup has been applied by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Dingqun Deng

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the relativistic Boltzmann equation with near vacuum initial data where the distribution function depends on the time, the position and the impulsion. The collision kernel considered here is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-20 Etienne Takou , Fidele L. Ciake Ciake

A basic question about the existence and stability of the Boltzmann equation in general non-convex domain with the specular reflection boundary condition has been widely open. In this paper, we consider cylindrical domains whose cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

We investigate the Boltzmann equation with spatial smearing, diffusive boundary conditions, and Lions' collision kernel. Both, the physical as well as the velocity space, are assumed to be bounded. Existence and uniqueness of a stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in a compact domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions. We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres of diameter $\epsilon$ in a box $\Lambda := [0, 1] \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Corentin Le Bihan

We establish the $L^1$ weighted propagation properties for solutions of the Boltzmann equation with hard potentials and non-integrable angular components in the collision kernel. Our method identifies null forms by angular averaging and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Maja Tasković , Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba , Nataša Pavlović

In this paper, we study the global well-posedness of the Boltzmann equation within the $L_{v}^{p}L_{x}^{\infty}$ framework for soft potential models with angular cutoff in a periodic box $\mathbb{T}^3$. By using a time-involved weight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Jong-in Kim , Gyounghun Ko

In this paper, we deal with (angular cut-off) Boltzmann equation with soft potential ($-3<\gamma<0$). In particular, we construct a unique global solution in $L^\infty_{x,v}$ which converges to global equilibrium asymptotically provided…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Gyounghun Ko , Donghyun Lee , Kwanghyuk Park

The paper concerns $L^1$- convergence to equilibrium for weak solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann Equation for soft potentials $(-4\le \gm<0$), with and without angular cutoff. We prove the time-averaged $L^1$-convergence to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Xuguang Lu

In this paper we consider an inverse problem for the time dependent linear Boltzmann equation. It concerns the identification of the coefficients via a finite number of measurements on the boundary. We prove that the total extinction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Rolci Cipolatti

The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

When dilute charged particles are confined in a bounded domain, boundary effects are crucial in the global dynamics. We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

In this work we prove global stability for the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse power intermolecular potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$. This completes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

This paper focuses on the study of existence and uniqueness of distributional and classical solutions to the Cauchy Boltzmann problem for the soft potential case assuming $S^{n-1}$ integrability of the angular part of the collision kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba

We prove explicit coercivity estimates for the linearized Boltzmann and Landau operators, for a general class of interactions including any inverse-power law interactions, and hard spheres. The functional spaces of these coercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

In this paper we consider the Boltzmann equation modelling the motion of a polyatomic gas where the integration collision operator in comparison with the classical one involves an additional internal energy variable $I\in\mathbb{R}_+$ and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

In this paper, we study the polyatomic Boltzmann equation based on continuous internal energy, focusing on physically relevant collision kernels of the hard potentials type with integrable angular part. We establish three main results:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Čolić

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

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

Motivated by the numerical investigation by Aoki et al. [1], we study a rarefied gas flow between two parallel infinite plates of the same temperature governed by the Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundaries, where one plate is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Renjun Duan , Zhu Zhang