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We give an explicit bound for the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between the solutions of Boltzmann's and Landau's equations in the case of soft and Coulomb potentials. This gives an explicit rate of convergence for the grazing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 David Godinho

Boundary effects are central to the dynamics of the dilute particles governed by Boltzmann equation. In this paper, we study both the diffuse reflection and the specular reflection boundary value problems for Boltzmann equation with soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Shuangqian Liu , Xiongfeng Yang

In this paper, we present new estimates for the entropy dissipation of the Landau-Fermi-Dirac equation (with hard or moderately soft potentials) in terms of a weighted relative Fisher information adapted to this equation. Such estimates are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Ricardo J. Alonso , Véronique Bagland , Laurent Desvillettes , Bertrand Lods

A dynamical estimate is given for the Boltzmann entropy of the Universe, under the simplifying assumptions provided by Newtonian cosmology. We first model the cosmological fluid as the probability fluid of a quantum-mechanical system. Next,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Cabrera , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro

We establish the $L^1$ weighted propagation properties for solutions of the Boltzmann equation with hard potentials and non-integrable angular components in the collision kernel. Our method identifies null forms by angular averaging and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Maja Tasković , Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba , Nataša Pavlović

The entropic lattice Boltzmann framework proposed the construction of the discrete equilibrium by taking into consideration minimization of a discrete entropy functional. The effect of this form of the discrete equilibrium on properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-16 S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

In this paper, we address the local well-posedness of the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation when the initial data decays polynomially in the velocity variable. We consider the case of very soft potentials $\gamma + 2s <…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Christopher Henderson , Weinan Wang

We demonstrate that in the space of distributions operated on by lattice Boltzmann methods that there exists a vicinity of the equilibrium where collisions with entropy balance are possible and, at the same time, there exist an area of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 A. N. Gorban , D. Packwood

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for regularized soft potentials and Grad's angular cutoff. We prove that uniform (in time) bounds in $L^1 ((1 + |v|^s)dv)$ and $H^k$ norms, $s, k \ge 0$ hold for its solution. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Laurent Desvillettes , Clément Mouhot

The study of positivity of solutions to the Boltzmann equation goes back to Carleman (1933), and the initial argument of Carleman was developed byPulvirenti-Wennberg (1997), the second author and Briant (2015). The appearance of a lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Cyril Imbert , Clément Mouhot , Luis Silvestre

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem on the angular cutoff Boltzmann equation near global Maxwillians for soft potentials either in the whole space or in the torus. We establish the existence of global unique mild solutions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Zongguang Li

By using the Jacobi metric of the configuration space, and assuming ergodicity, we calculate the Boltzmann entropy $S$ of a finite-dimensional system around a non-degenerate critical point of its potential energy $V$. We compare $S$ with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nikos Kalogeropoulos

In this paper, we consider the cutoff Boltzmann equation near Maxwellian, we proved the global existence and uniqueness for the cutoff Boltzmann equation in polynomial weighted space for all $\gamma \in (-3, 1]$. We also proved initially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Chuqi Cao

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

In this paper, we obtain the weak Harnack inequality and H\"older estimates for a large class of kinetic integro-differential equations. We prove that the Boltzmann equation without cut-off can be written in this form and satisfies our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

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

We introduce a ``two-particle factorization'' condition which allows us to formulate the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for non-reversible collision kernels in terms of an entropy inequality. This formulation yields an H-Theorem. We provide…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto

We prove global existence of smooth solutions near Maxwellians for the non-cutoff Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in the weakly collisional regime. To address the weak dissipation of the non-cutoff linearized Boltzmann operator, we develop…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuanjie Lei , Shuangqian Liu , Qinghua Xiao , Huijiang Zhao

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

In this article, we prove a stability estimate going from the Radon transform of a function with limited angle-distance data to the $L^p$ norm of the function itself, under some conditions on the support of the function. We apply this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Pedro Caro , David Dos Santos Ferreira , Alberto Ruiz