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Well/ill-posedness bifurcation for the Boltzmann equation with constant collision kernel

Analysis of PDEs 2024-07-30 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the 3D Boltzmann equation with the constant collision kernel. We investigate the well/ill-posedness problem using the methods from nonlinear dispersive PDEs. We construct a family of special solutions, which are neither near equilibrium nor self-similar, to the equation, and prove that the well/ill-posedness threshold in HsH^{s} Sobolev space is exactly at regularity s=1s=1, despite the fact that the equation is scale invariant at s=12s=\frac{1}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.2206.11931,
  title  = {Well/ill-posedness bifurcation for the Boltzmann equation with constant collision kernel},
  author = {Xuwen Chen and Justin Holmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11931},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted to appear in Annals of PDE

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