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This paper gives the first full proof of the justification of the linear Boltzmann equation from an underlying long range particle evolution. We suppose that a tagged particle is interacting with a background via a two body potential that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Matthew Egginton , Florian Theil

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

The aim of the work is to provide a stable method to get sharp bounds for Boltzmann and Landau operators in weighted Sobolev spaces and in anisotropic spaces. All the sharp bounds are given for the original Boltzmann and Landau operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Ling-Bing He

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 prove that any given function can be smoothly approximated by functions lying in the kernel of a linear operator involving at least one fractional component. The setting in which we work is very general, since it takes into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Alessandro Carbotti , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

This work is concerned with the generation of decay estimates in the velocity variable for solutions of the space-inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without cutoff on a bounded spatial domain for hard and moderately soft potentials. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Cyril Imbert , Amélie Loher

We consider a system of N particles interacting via a short-range smooth potential, in a intermediate regime between the weak-coupling and the low-density. We provide a rigorous derivation of the Linear Landau equation from this particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicolò Catapano

Recently, a new class of semi-Lagrangian methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation has been introduced [8, 17, 18]. These methods work in a satisfactory way either in rarefied or fluid regime. Moreover, because of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Giovanni Russo , Pietro Santagati , Seok-Bae Yun

We study the evolution of a quantum particle interacting with a random potential in the low density limit (Boltzmann-Grad). The phase space density of the quantum evolution defined through the Husimi function converges weakly to a linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Eng , Laszlo Erdos

In this paper we introduce a notion of scattering theory for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on non-compact, connected and complete Riemannian manifolds. A principal condition is given by a certain positive lower bound of the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 K. Ito , E. Skibsted

We construct a regularized cumulant (semi-invariant) representation of a solution of the initial value problem for the BBGKY hierarchy for a one-dimensional infinite system of hard spheres interacting via a short-range potential. An…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-24 Tatiana V. Ryabukha

We establish the global-wellposedness and stability of the Boltzmann equation with the specular reflection boundary condition in general smooth convex domains when an initial datum is close to the Maxwellian with or without a small external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

A new coercivity estimate on the spectral gap of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator for multiple species is proved. The assumptions on the collision kernels include hard and Maxwellian potentials under Grad's angular cut-off…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Esther Sarah Daus , Ansgar Jüngel , Clément Mouhot , Nicola Zamponi

We derive and implement a suitable boundary condition for the kinetic description of the electrons inside a plasma, which takes into account microphysical processes inside the wall. It is based on the surface scattering kernel, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Felix Willert , Clemens Hoyer , Gordon K. Grubert , Franz X. Bronold

In the present paper, we concern the hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition in a two-dimensional disk to the compressible Euler equations. Due to the non-zero curvature and non-zero tangential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Feimin Huang , Jing Ouyang , Yong Wang

We investigate the existence, uniqueness, and $L^1$-contractivity of weak solutions to a porous medium equation with fractional diffusion on an evolving hypersurface. To settle the existence, we reformulate the equation as a local problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Amal Alphonse , Charles M. Elliott

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space inhomogeneous 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 2012-11-06 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

We study the Boltzmann equation near a global Maxwellian in the case of bounded domains. We consider the boundary conditions to be either specular reflections or Maxwellian diffusion. Starting from the reference work of Guo in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Marc Briant

It is shown that early suggested derivation of the Boltzmann kinetic equation for dilute hard sphere gas from the time-reversible BBGKY equations is incorrect since in fact a priori substitutes for them definite irreversible equations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-09 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

This paper is devoted to the anomalous diffusion limit of kinetic equations with a fractional Fokker-Planck collision operator in a spatially bounded domain. We consider two boundary conditions at the kinetic scale: absorption and specular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Ludovic Cesbron