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The spinless relativistic Coulomb problem is the bound-state problem for the spinless Salpeter equation (a standard approximation to the Bethe--Salpeter formalism as well as the most simple generalization of the nonrelativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Lucha , Franz F. Schöberl

We give quantitative estimates on the asymptotics of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator and its associated equation from angular cutoff to non cutoff. On one hand, the results disclose the link between the hyperbolic property…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Ling-Bing He , Yu-Long Zhou

We broaden the application of the $l^{2}$-decoupling theorem to the Boltzmann equation. We prove Strichartz estimates for the linear problem in the $\mathbb{T}^d$ setting. We establish space-time bilinear estimates, and hence the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Xuwen Chen , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

In this work, we study the Cauchy problem for the spatially homogeneous non-cutoff Boltzamnn equation with Maxwellian molecules. We prove that this Cauchy problem enjoys Gelfand-Shilov regularizing effect, that means the smoothing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Leo Glangetas , Hao-Guang Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

This paper studies a Boltzmann-Nordheim equation in a slab with two-dimensional velocity space and pseudo-Maxwellian forces. Strong solutions are obtained for the Cauchy problem with large initial data in an $ L^1 \cap L^{\infty} $ setting.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 L. Arkeryd , A. Nouri

Consider the initial-boundary value problem for the 2-speed Carleman model of the Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases set in some bounded interval with boundary conditions prescribing the density of particles entering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-27 François Golse , Francesco Salvarani

The purpose of this note is to demonstrate the announced result in [Loher, The Strong Harnack inequality for the Boltzmann equation, S\'eminaire Laurent Schwartz proceeding] by filling the gap in the proof sketch. We prove the semi-local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Amélie Loher

We consider the Einstein-Boltzmann system for massless particles in the Bianchi I space-time with scattering cross-sections in a certain range of soft potentials. We assume that the space-time has an initial conformal gauge singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

In this paper, we find that the linearized collision operator $L$ of the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with soft potential generates a strongly continuous semigroup on $H^k_n$, with $k,n\in\mathbb{R}$. In the theory of Boltzmann equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Dingqun Deng

An important physical model describing the dynamics of dilute weakly ionized plasmas in the collisional kinetic theory is the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for which the plasma responds strongly to the self-consistent electrostatic force.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Renjun Duan , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

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

We consider weak solutions of the spatially inhomogeneous Landau equation with hard potentials ($\gamma \in (0,1]$), under the assumption that mass, energy, and entropy densities are under control. In this regime, with arbitrary initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Stanley Snelson

For the Maxwellian molecules or hard potentials case, we verify the smoothing effect for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff. Given initial data with low regularity, we prove its solutions at any positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Jun-Ling Chen , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

We study the Cauchy problem for the relativistic Boltzmann equation near relativistic Maxwellians in the whole space. The purpose of this article is to handle hard potentials, and for initial data with finite $L^\infty$ norm, to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Koya Nishimura

We prove an inequality on the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between two solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff, from which we deduce some uniqueness results. In particular, we obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Fournier , Hélène Guérin

In this paper, we study the initial value problem of a Boltzmann type equation with a nonlinear degenerate damping. We prove the existence of global weak solutions with large initial data, in three dimensional space. We rely on a variant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Cheng Yu

In this paper, we prove the propagation of uniform upper bounds for the spatially homogeneous relativistic Boltzmann equation. These $L^\infty$ bounds have been known to be a challenging open problem in relativistic kinetic theory. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Jin Woo Jang , Robert M. Strain , Seok-Bae Yun

We consider the non-cutoff Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann (VPB) system of two species with soft potential in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^3$ when an initial data is near Maxwellian. Continuing the work Deng [Comm. Math. Phys. 387, 1603-1654…

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

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot