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We develop the regularity theory of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cut-off and hard potentials (for instance, hard spheres), by (i) revisiting the Lp-theory to obtain constructive bounds, (ii) establishing propagation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Cédric Villani

This manuscript investigates the following aspects of the one dimensional dissipative Boltzmann equation associated to variable hard-spheres kernel: (1) we show the optimal cooling rate of the model by a careful study of the system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Ricardo Alonso , Véronique Bagland , Yingda Cheng , Bertrand Lods

We investigate the long time behavior of a system of viscoelastic particles modeled with the homogeneous Boltzmann equation. We prove the existence of a universal Maxwellian intermediate asymptotic state and explicit the rate of convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Ricardo J. Alonso , Bertrand Lods

We consider the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials and any singularity parameter $s\in (0,1)$, i.e. with $\gamma+2s\in(0,2]$ on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that if the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Sanchit Chaturvedi

The existence of two stationary solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres or disks is investigated. They are restricted neither to weak dissipation nor to small gradients. The one-particle distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-06 J. Javier Brey , N. Khalil , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We revisit the problem on the inner structure of shock waves in simple gases modelized by the Boltzmann kinetic equation. In \cite{pomeau1987shock}, a self-similarity approach was proposed for infinite total cross section resulting from a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yves Pomeau , Minh-Binh Tran

In this talk we show a stiff fluid solution of the Einstein equations for a cylindrically symmetric spacetime. The main features of this metric are that it is non-separable in comoving coordinates for the congruence of the worldlineS of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-01 L. Fernández-Jambrina

We investigate the time-evolution of elastoplastic materials reinforced by randomly distributed long-range interactions. Starting from a rate-independent system on a discrete spring lattice that combines local linearized elasticity,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Simone Hermann

We determine the effective behavior of a class of composites in finite-strain crystal plasticity, based on a variational model for materials made of fine parallel layers of two types. While one component is completely rigid in the sense…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Fabian Christowiak , Carolin Kreisbeck

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 concern the long-time behavior of mild solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann--Fermi--Dirac equation with moderately soft potential. Based on the well-posedness results in [X-G. Lu, J. Stat. Phys., 105, (2001), 353-388], we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Ning Jiang , Chenchen Wang

In this paper we continue the formal analysis of the long-time asymptotics of the homoenergetic solutions for the Boltzmann equation that we began in [18]. They have the form $f\left( x,v,t\right) =g\left(v-L\left( t\right) x,t\right) $…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Richard D. James , Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez

The homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell mixtures is considered to study the dynamics of tracer particles or impurities (solvent) immersed in a uniform granular gas (solute). The analysis is based on exact results derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-21 V. Garzó , E. Trizac

We study the phenomenon of bounces, as predicted by Belinski, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL) in the study of singularities arising from Einstein's equations, as an instability mechanism within the setting of the (inhomogeneous)…

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We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jon Wilkening , Johann Rafelski

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 note we study Boltzmann's collision kernel for inverse power law interactions $U_s(r)=1/r^{s-1}$ for $s>2$ in dimension $ d=3 $. We prove the limit of the non-cutoff kernel to the hard-sphere kernel and give precise asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jin Woo Jang , Bernhard Kepka , Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We prove the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium state with unit mass to the dissipative linear Boltzmann equation with hard--spheres collision kernel describing inelastic interactions of a gas particles with a fixed background. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bertrand Lods , Giuseppe Toscani

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 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