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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 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

In this paper, we consider the global well-posedness to the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with soft potential in the $L^\infty$ setting. We show that when the initial data is close to equilibrium and the perturbation is small in $L^2 \cap…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Chuqi Cao

Existence of global regular solution branches of the Boltzmann Cauchy problem with continuously differentiable data in phase space dimension $2d\geq 6$ with polynomial decay at infinity of order greater than $2d$ is proved. There are data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Jörg Kampen

We prove an inequality on the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance --which can be seen as a particular case of a Wasserstein metric-- between two solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff, but with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Nicolas Fournier , Clément Mouhot

This paper studies a space-inhomogeneous Boltzmann-Nordheim equation with pseudo-Maxwellian forces. Strong solutions are obtained for the Cauchy problem in a setting with large bounded L1 initial data. The main results are existence,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Leif Arkeryd , Anne Nouri

We consider a simplified Boltzmann equation: spatially homogeneous, two-dimensional, radially symmetric, with Grad's angular cutoff, and linearized around its initial condition. We prove that for a sufficiently singular velocity cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-21 Nicolas Fournier

We establish some conditional uniqueness of weak solutions to the viscous primitive equations, and as an application, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions, with the initial data taken as small $L^\infty$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Jinkai Li , Edriss S. Titi

It is well-known that small, regular, spherically symmetric characteristic initial data to the Einstein-scalar-field system which are decaying towards (future null) infinity give rise to solutions which are foward-in-time global (in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-13 Jonathan Luk , Sung-Jin Oh , Shiwu Yang

The Cauchy problem for the inelastic Boltzmann equation is studied for small data. Existence and uniqueness of mild and weak solutions is obtained for sufficiently small data that lies in the space of functions bounded by Maxwellians. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-11 Ricardo J. Alonso

It is known that the singularity in the non-cutoff cross-section of the Boltzmann equation leads to the gain of regularity and gain of weight in the velocity variable. By defining and analyzing a non-isotropy norm which precisely captures…

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

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

We establish pointwise polynomial decay estimates in velocity space for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without cutoff, in the case of hard potentials ($\gamma +2s > 2$), under the assumption that the mass, energy, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Stephen Cameron , Stanley Snelson

We prove the existence of a class of large global scattering solutions of Boltzmann's equation with constant collision kernel in two dimensions. These solutions are found for $L^2$ perturbations of an underlying initial data which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Thomas Chen , Ryan Denlinger , Nataša Pavlović

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 consider the perturbed solutions with polynomial tail in large velocities for the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation near global Maxwellians in the whole space. The global in time existence is proved in the weighted Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Chuqi Cao , Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

We establish the uniqueness of large solutions to the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with moderate soft potentials. Specifically, the weak solution $F=\mu+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f$ is unique as long as it has finite energy, in the sense that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Dingqun Deng , Shota Sakamoto

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

The paper is devoted to constructing the global solutions around global Maxwellians to the initial-boundary value problem on the Boltzmann equation in general bounded domains with isothermal diffuse reflection boundaries. We allow a class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Renjun Duan , Yong Wang

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