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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

We consider the Cauchy problem for the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with polynomially decaying initial data in the velocity variable. We establish short-time existence for any initial data with this decay in a fifth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

We study the quantitative pointwise behavior of the solutions of the linearized Boltzmann equation for hard potentials, Maxwellian molecules and soft potentials, with Grad's angular cutoff assumption. More precisely, for solutions inside…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Yu-Chu Lin , Haitao Wang , Kung-Chien Wu

This paper concerns a kinetic model of the thermostated Boltzmann equation with a linear deformation force described by a constant matrix. The collision kernel under consideration includes both the Maxwell molecule and general hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

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

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

In this article we consider the linear inelastic Boltzmann equation in presence of a uniform and fixed gravity field, in the case of Maxwell molecules. We first obtain a well-posedness result in the space of finite, non-negative Radon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Théophile Dolmaire , Nicola Miele , Alessia Nota

We consider the 3D Boltzmann equation for the Maxwellian particle and soft potential with an angular cutoff. We prove sharp global well-posedness with initial data small in the scaling-critical space. The solution also remains in $L^{1}$ if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Xuwen Chen , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

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

We consider a modified Boltzmann equation which contains, together with the collision operator, an additional drift term that is characterized by a matrix A. Furthermore, we consider a Maxwell gas, where the collision kernel has an angular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Bernhard Kepka

We prove the unique existence and exponential decay of global in time classical solutions to the special relativistic Boltzmann equation without any angular cut-off assumptions with initial perturbations in some weighted Sobolev spaces. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Jin Woo Jang

In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Alessandro Munafo , Jeffrey R. Haack , Irene M. Gamba , Thierry E. Magin

We construct bounded classical solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the whole space without specifying any limit behaviors at the spatial infinity and without assuming the smallness condition on initial data. More precisely, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

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

In this paper we study multivariate kinetic-type equations in a general setup, which includes in particular the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with Maxwellian molecules, both with elastic and inelastic collisions. Using a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Sebastian Mentemeier , Glib Verovkin

The Boltzmann H-theorem implies that the solution to the Boltzmann equation tends to an equilibrium, that is, a Maxwellian when time tends to infinity. This has been proved in varies settings when the initial energy is finite. However, when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Yoshinori Morimoto , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

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

The Boltzmann equation without an angular cutoff is considered when the initial data is a small perturbation of a global Maxwellian with an algebraic decay in the velocity variable. A well-posedness theory in the perturbative framework is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Ricardo Alonso , Yoshinori Morimoto , Weiran Sun , Tong Yang

The Boltzmann equation without Grad's angular cutoff assumption is believed to have regularizing effect on the solution because of the non-integrable angular singularity of the cross-section. However, even though so far this has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Y. Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

We study steady solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation with hard-sphere interactions in a slab geometry. Under a spatial symmetry assumption in the transverse variables $x_2$ and $x_3$, the problem reduces to a one-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jin Woo Jang , Seok-Bae Yun