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The Landau equation and the Boltzmann equation are connected through the limit of grazing collisions. This has been proved rigorously for certain families of Boltzmann operators concentrating on grazing collisions. In this contribution, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Corentin Le Bihan , Raphael Winter

We consider a test particle moving in a random distribution of obstacles in the plane, under the action of a uniform magnetic field, orthogonal to the plane. We show that, in a weak coupling limit, the particle distribution behaves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matteo Marcozzi , Alessia Nota

We consider a system of N classical particles, interacting via a smooth, short- range potential, in a weak-coupling regime. This means that N tends to infinity when the interaction is suitably rescaled. The j-particle marginals, which obey…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Alexander V. Bobylev , Mario Pulvirenti , Chiara Saffirio

We provide a rigorous justification of the linearized Boltzmann- and Landau equations from interacting particle systems with long-range interaction. The result shows that the fluctuations of Hamiltonian $N$- particle systems governed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Corentin Le Bihan

We study the derivation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation from the mean-field limit of a conservative $N$-particle system, obtained by passing to the grazing limit on Kac's walk in his program for the Boltzmann equation. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xuanrui Feng , Zhenfu Wang

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

In this paper, we consider the spatially homogeneous Landau equation, which is a variation of the Boltzmann equation in the grazing collision limit. For the Landau equation for hard potentials in the style of Desvillettes-Villani (Comm.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jin Woo Jang , Junha Kim

In this article the linear Boltzmann equation is derived for a particle interacting with a Gaussian random field, in the weak coupling limit, with renewal in time of the random field. The initial data can be chosen arbitrarily. The proof is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Sébastien Breteaux

We consider a tagged particle in mean field interaction with a free gas of density N at equilibrium. In dimensions $d\geq4$, we prove the convergence of its trajectory, as N goes to infinity, to the one of a diffusion process associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Thierry Bodineau , Pierre Le Bris

In this paper we provide a rigorous derivation of the inelastic linear Boltzmann equation, in the Boltzmann-Grad limit, from a dissipative, random, Lorentz gas in arbitrary dimensions d $\geq$ 2. Specifically, we consider a microscopic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Théophile Dolmaire , Alessia Nota

We consider a classical system of point particles interacting by means of a short range potential. We prove that, in the low--density (Boltzmann--Grad) limit, the system behaves, for short times, as predicted by the associated Boltzmann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Mario Pulvirenti , Chiara Saffirio , Sergio Simonella

We prove global existence of smooth solutions near Maxwellians for the non-cutoff Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in the weakly collisional regime. To address the weak dissipation of the non-cutoff linearized Boltzmann operator, we develop…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuanjie Lei , Shuangqian Liu , Qinghua Xiao , Huijiang Zhao

We examine a family of microscopic models of plasmas, with a parameter $\alpha$ comparing the typical distance between collisions to the strength of the grazing collisions. These microscopic models converge in distribution, in the weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Kay Kirkpatrick

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson equations in a weakly collisional regime and study the linear Boltzmann collision operator. We prove that Landau damping still occurs in this case.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Xixia Ma

We derive the 3D spatially homogeneous Boltzmann's equation with moderately soft potentials and singular angular interaction, from an interacting particles system. The collision kernel is of the form $B(z,\sigma)=|z|^{\gamma}b\left(…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Samir Salem

We give an explicit bound for the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between the solutions of Boltzmann's and Landau's equations in the case of soft and Coulomb potentials. This gives an explicit rate of convergence for the grazing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 David Godinho

In this paper, we study the grazing limit from the non-cutoff fuzzy Boltzmann equations to the fuzzy Landau equation, where particles interact through delocalised collisions. We show the grazing limit through variational formulations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Manh Hong Duong , Boris Golubkov , Zihui He

We revisit the grazing collision limit connecting the Boltzmann equation to the Landau(-Fokker-Planck) equation from their recent reinterpretations as gradient flows. Our results are in the same spirit as the $\Gamma$-convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-03 José Carrillo , Matias Delgadino , Jeremy Wu

The grazing limit of the Boltzmann equation to Landau equation is well-known and has been justified by using cutoff near the grazing angle with some suitable scaling. In this paper, we will provide a new understanding by simply applying a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tong Yang , Yu-Long Zhou

We derive a class of space homogeneous Landau-like equations from stochastic interacting particles. Through the use of relative entropy, we obtain quantitative bounds on the distance between the solution of the N-particle Liouville equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-07 José Antonio Carrillo , Shuchen Guo , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin
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