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This article proves the regularity for the Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff with hard potential. By sharpening the coercivity and upper bound estimate on the collision operator, analyzing the Poisson bracket between the transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Dingqun Deng

We prove a strong/weak stability estimate for the 3D homogeneous Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-1,0)$) using the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost. This in particular implies the uniqueness in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Liping Xu

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

Homo-energetic solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation have been extensively studied, but their global stability in the inhomogeneous setting remains challenging due to unbounded energy growth under self-similar scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Shunlin Shen

It has long been suspected that the non-cutoff Boltzmann operator has similar coercivity properties as a fractional Laplacian. This has led to the hope that the homogenous Boltzmann equation enjoys similar regularity properties as the heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Jean-Marie Barbaroux , Dirk Hundertmark , Tobias Ried , Semjon Vugalter

This paper deals with the long time behavior of solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. The interactions considered are the so-called (non cut-off and non mollified) hard potentials. We prove an exponential in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Isabelle Tristani

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

We prove the existence and uniqueness of global solutions to the Boltzmann equation with non-cutoff soft potentials in the whole space when the initial data is a small perturbation of a Maxwellian with polynomial decay in velocity. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Kleber Carrapatoso , Pierre Gervais

We prove a local-in-time existence and uniqueness theorem for a smooth classical solution to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cutoff soft potentials. Our proof is based on a series of bilinear estimates for the…

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

Diffusive limit of the non-cutoff Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system in perturbation framework still remains open. By employing a new weight function and making full use of the anisotropic dissipation property of the non-cutoff linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Yuan Xu , Fujun Zhou , Weihua Gong , Weijun Wu

In this paper we study the regularity of the non-cutoff Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for plasma particles of two species in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^3$ with hard potential. The existence of global-in-time nearby Maxwellian solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Dingqun Deng

We study the Boltzmann equation for a space-homogeneous gas of inelastic hard spheres, with a diffusive term representing a random background forcing. Under the assumption that the initial datum is a nonnegative $L^2$ function, with bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Irene M. Gamba , Vladislav Panferov , Cedric Villani

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

Advantage is taken of the arbitrariness in energy reference to consider anew integral transcriptions of Schrodinger's equation in the presence of potentials which at infinity acquire constant, nonvanishing values. It is found possible to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Jan A. Grzesik

We start with some global Maxwellian function $M$, which is a stationary solution (with the constant total density $\rho$) of the Boltzmann equation, and we denote the number of the corresponding space variables by $n$. The notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Lev Sakhnovich

The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

In this paper, we investigate the problems of Cauchy theory and exponential stability for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cut-off. We only deal with the physical case of hard potentials type interactions (with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Frédéric Hérau , Daniela Tonon , Isabelle Tristani

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space homogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. This approach is a two-step process that acts on the weak form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

In this work we present several quantitative results of convergence to equilibrium for the linear Boltzmann operator with soft potentials under Grad's angular cutoff assumption. This is done by an adaptation of the famous entropy method and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 José Cañizo , Amit Einav , Bertrand Lods

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