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This work addresses a central challenge in the numerical analysis of the cutoff spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation: the development of rigorously justified, accurate numerical schemes. We present (i) a novel Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yanzhi Gui , Ling-Bing He , Liu Liu

Efficient and accurate numerical approximation of the full Boltzmann equation has been a longstanding challenging problem in kinetic theory. This is mainly due to the high dimensionality of the problem and the complicated collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Jingwei Hu , Yubo Wang

We prove the sharp regularizing estimates for the gain term of the Boltzmann collision operator including hard sphere, hard potential and Maxwell molecule models. Our new estimates characterize both regularization and convolution properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Jin-Cheng Jiang

We apply the collision-based hybrid introduced in \cite{hauck} to the Boltzmann equation with the BGK operator and a hyperbolic scaling. An implicit treatment of the source term is used to handle stiffness associated with the BGK operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Minwoo Shin , Cory D. Hauck , Ryan G. McClarren

Smoothed Wigner transforms have been used in signal processing, as a regularized version of the Wigner transform, and have been proposed as an alternative to it in the homogenization and / or semiclassical limits of wave equations. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Agissilaos G. Athanassoulis , Norbert J. Mauser , Thierry Paul

This paper studies tensors that admit decomposition in the Extended Tensor Train (ETT) format, with a key focus on the case where some decomposition factors are constrained to be equal. This factor sharing introduces additional challenges,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Alexander Molozhavenko , Maxim Rakhuba

This paper describes a trapezoidal quadrature method for the discretization of weakly singular, singular and hypersingular boundary integral operators with complex symmetric quadratic forms. Such integral operators naturally arise when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Jeremy Hoskins , Manas Rachh , Bowei Wu

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

The central object in wave turbulence theory is the wave kinetic equation (WKE), which is an evolution equation for wave action density and acts as the wave analog of the Boltzmann kinetic equations for particle interactions. Despite recent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kunlun Qi , Lian Shen , Li Wang

At higher altitudes, for high temperature gases, for instance near space shuttles moving at hypersonic speed, not only mechanical collisions are affecting the gas flow, but also chemical reactions have an impact on such hypersonic flows. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Niclas Bernhoff

The S matrix of e--e scattering has the structure of a projection operator that projects incoming separable product states onto entangled two-electron states. In this projection operator the empirical value of the fine-structure constant…

General Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Walter Smilga

We study solutions of the collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE) in a functional Koopman representation. This facilitates the use of linear spectral techniques characteristic of the analysis of Schrodinger-type equations. For illustrative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-25 Keir Darling , Lawrence M. Widrow

Spectral compressed sensing involves reconstructing a spectral-sparse signal from a subset of uniformly spaced samples, with applications in radar imaging and wireless channel estimation. By fully exploiting the signal structures, this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenlong Wang , Wen Huang , Zai Yang

We introduce an efficient method to reconstruct the Wigner function of many-mode continuous variable systems. It is based on convex optimization with semidefinite programs, and also includes a version of the maximum entropy principle, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Ludmila A. S. Botelho , Reinaldo O. Vianna

Paper presents a new solver for numerical solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with Shakhov model collision integral (S-model) for arbitrary spatial domains. Numerical method utilizes Tensor-Train decomposition, which allows to reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 A. V. Chikitkin , E. K. Kornev , V. A. Titarev

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin algorithm for the solution of a class of Fokker-Planck collision operators. These operators arise in many fields of physics, and our particular application is for kinetic plasma simulations. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ammar Hakim , M. Francisquez , J. Juno , Greg W. Hammett

In this article, we extend the result of Boltzmann on characterisation of collision invariants from the case of hard disks to a class of two-dimensional compact, strictly-convex particles.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Laure Saint-Raymond , Mark Wilkinson

A new algorithm to perform coherent mode decomposition of the undulator radiation is proposed. It is based in separating the horizontal and vertical directions, reducing the problem by working with one-dimension wavefronts. The validity…

The present article proposes a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in the half-space. We show an analog of the Lanford's theorem in this domain, with specular reflection boundary condition, stating the convergence in the low…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Théophile Dolmaire

We revisit the derivation of collinear factorization for Deep Inelastic Scattering at sub-asymptotic values of the four momentum transfer squared, where the masses of the particles participating in the interaction cannot be neglected. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-27 Juan V. Guerrero , Alberto Accardi