OPTIMAL CONVERGENCE RATES OF LANDAU EQUATION WITH EXTERNAL FORCING IN THE WHOLE SPACE

In this paper, we combine the method of constructing the compensating function introduced by Kawashima and the standard energy method for the study on the Landau equation with external forcing. Both the global existence of solutions near the time asymptotic states which are local Maxwellians and the optimal convergence rates are obtained. The method used here has its own advantage for this kind of studies because it does not involve the spectrum analysis of the corresponding linearized operator.     

STRUCTURE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF QUASILINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

The existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for a class of quasilinearordinary differential equations with a large parameter are obtained. It is shownthat the flat core of positive solutions can exist. So some results of [1-3] aresharpened.     

GLOBAL CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION NEAR MAXWELLIANS

Global classical solutions near Maxwellians are constructed for the Bolt.zma.nn equation in a periodic box with angular soft cutoff, that is, -3<γ< 0. The construction of global solution is based on an energy method used in [9].