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This paper deals with the space-homogenous Landau equation with very soft potentials, including the Coulomb case. This nonlinear equation is of parabolic type with diffusion matrix given by the convolution product of the solution with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 François Golse , Cyril Imbert , Sehyun Ji , Alexis F. Vasseur

We consider a test particle moving in a random distribution of obstacles in the plane, under the action of a uniform magnetic field, orthogonal to the plane. We show that, in a weak coupling limit, the particle distribution behaves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matteo Marcozzi , Alessia Nota

This paper considers the space homogenous Boltzmann equation with Maxwell molecules and arbitrary angular distribution. Following Kac's program, emphasis is laid on the the associated conservative Kac's stochastic $N$-particle system, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Mathias Rousset

We introduce and analyze a nonlinear exchange dynamics for Ising spin systems with arbitrary interactions. The evolution is governed by a quadratic Boltzmann-type equation that conserves the mean magnetization. Collisions are encoded…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Pietro Caputo , Mario Morellini

We consider the spatially inhomogeneous Landau equation with soft potentials, including the case of Coulomb interactions. First, we establish the existence of solutions for a short time, assuming the initial data is in a fourth-order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

We consider a system of N classical particles, interacting via a smooth, short- range potential, in a weak-coupling regime. This means that N tends to infinity when the interaction is suitably rescaled. The j-particle marginals, which obey…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Alexander V. Bobylev , Mario Pulvirenti , Chiara Saffirio

We consider the dynamic large deviation behaviour of Kac's collisional process for a range of initial conditions including equilibrium. We prove an upper bound with a rate function of the type which has previously been found for kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Daniel Heydecker

In this paper we prove new constructive coercivity estimates and convergence to equilibrium for a spatially non-homogeneous system of Landau equations with soft potentials. We show that the nonlinear collision operator conserves each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Maria Gualdani , Nicola Zamponi

This paper investigates the Cauchy problem of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with soft potential under the perturbation framework to global equilibrium. We prove that the solution to the Cauchy problem exhibits analyticity in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Xiao-Dong Cao , Chao-Jiang Xu , Yan Xu

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Maria Gualdani , Nestor Guillen

We derive a weak-strong uniqueness and stability principle for the Landau equation in the soft potentials case (including Coulomb interactions). The distance between two solutions is measured by their relative entropy, which to our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Côme Tabary

We derive two estimates for the deviation of the $N$-particle, hard-spheres Kac process from the corresponding Boltzmann equation, measured in expected Wasserstein distance. Particular care is paid to the long-time properties of our…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Daniel Heydecker

We study a class of one-dimensional particle systems with true (Bird type) binary interactions, which includes Kac's model of the Boltzmann equation and nonlinear equations for the evolution of wealth distribution arising in kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Roberto Cortez , Joaquin Fontbona

In this Note we present the main results from the recent work arxiv:1107.3251, which answers several conjectures raised fifty years ago by Kac. There Kac introduced a many-particle stochastic process (now denoted as Kac's master equation)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

We consider the 3D Landau equation for moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-2,0)$ with the usual notation) as well as a stochastic system of $N$ particles approximating it. We first establish some strong/weak stability estimates for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Nicolas Fournier , Maxime Hauray

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

We establish the mean-field convergence for systems of points evolving along the gradient flow of their interaction energy when the interaction is the Coulomb potential or a super-coulombic Riesz potential, for the first time in arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Sylvia Serfaty , appendix with Mitia Duerinckx

We prove a strong/weak stability estimate for the 3D homogeneous Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-1,0)$) using the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost. This in particular implies the uniqueness in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Liping Xu

We introduce a practical criterion that justifies the propagation and appearance of $L^{p}$-norms for the solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with very soft potentials without cutoff. Such criterion also provides a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Ricardo J. Alonso , Pierre Gervais , Bertrand Lods

This paper continues our survey about the mean-field derivation of the two-dimensional signal-dependent Keller-Segel system studied in [1]. Therefore, we consider the same system of moderately interacting particles as before. The difference…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Lukas Bol , Li Chen