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The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…
We consider the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff for soft potentials. For any given initial datum such that the mass, energy and entropy densities are bounded and the mass is away from vacuum, we establish…
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…
We consider weak solutions of the adjoint equation for an elliptic operator in nondivergent form, and their asymptotic properties at an interior point. We assume that the coefficients a_{ij} are bounded, measurable, complex-valued functions…
The spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard potentials is considered for measure valued initial data having finite mass and energy. We prove the existence of \emph{weak measure solutions}, with and without angular cutoff on the…
We derive lower bounds on the resolvent operator for the linearized steady Boltzmann equation over weighted L1 Banach spaces in velocity, comparable to those derived by Pogan & Zumbrun in an analogous weighted L2 Hilbert space setting.…
This paper studies convergence to equilibrium for the spatially inhomogeneous linear relaxation Boltzmann equation in Boltzmann entropy and related entropy functionals the $p$-entropies. Villani proved in \cite{V09} entropic hypocoercivity…
The paper deals with the generalization of both Boltzmann entropy and distribution in the light of most-probable interpretation of statistical equilibrium. The statistical analysis of the generalized entropy and distribution leads to some…
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…
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…
We prove explicit coercivity estimates for the linearized Boltzmann and Landau operators, for a general class of interactions including any inverse-power law interactions, and hard spheres. The functional spaces of these coercivity…
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.…
We prove L^1 --> L^\infty estimates for the linear Schroedinger equation in three dimensions. The potential is assumed to belong to certain L^p spaces, but no pointwise decay estimates and no additional regularity is required.
In this manuscript we investigate the regularization of solutions for the spatially homogeneous Landau equation. For moderately soft potentials, it is shown that weak solutions become smooth instantaneously and stay so over all times, and…
A lower bound on the R\'enyi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the…
The purpose of this paper is to obtain a fundamental $L^p-L^{p'}$ estimate for a class of a strongly damped wave equations where the damping operator is given by $-\delta \Delta$ with $\delta \geq 0$ and the constant in the estimate is…
We conduct an investigation into the dispersive post-shock oscillations in the entropic lattice-Boltzmann method (ELBM). To this end we use a root finding algorithm to implement the ELBM which displays fast cubic convergence and guaranties…
The Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation with soft potential, in the framework of small perturbation of an equilibrium state, has been studied in many spaces. The method of strongly continuous semigroup has been applied by…
We obtain a global weighted $L^p$ estimate for the gradient of the weak solutions to divergence form elliptic equations with measurable coefficients in a nonsmooth bounded domain. The coefficients are assumed to be merely measurable in one…
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…