Estimates for the density of a nonlinear Landau process

The aim of this paper is to obtain estimates for the density of the law of a specific nonlinear diffusion process at any positive bounded time. This process is issued from kinetic theory and is called Landau process, by analogy with the associated deterministic Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. It is not Markovian, its coefficients are not bounded and the diffusion matrix is degenerate. Nevertheless, the specific form of the diffusion matrix and the nonlinearity imply the non-degeneracy of the Malliavin matrix and then the existence and smoothness of the density. In order to obtain a lower bound for the density, the known results do not apply. However, our approach follows the main idea consisting in discretizing the interval time and developing a recursive method. To this aim, we prove and use refined results on conditional Malliavin calculus. The lower bound implies the positivity of the solution of the Landau equation, and partially answers to an analytical conjecture. We also obtain an upper bound for the density, which again leads to an unusual estimate due to the bad behavior of the coefficients.     

混合气体线性化Boltzmann算子的特征值与特征函数

考虑了混合气体线性化Boltzmann算子的特征值与特征函数问题.通过对算子中核函数的分析得出了更一般的混合气体线性化Boltzmann算子的特征值与特征函数.而且结论还适用于单一气体情况.     

Global existence and decay estimates of the Boltzmann equation with frictional force: The general results

In this paper, we give the existence theory and the optimal time convergence rates of the solutions to the Boltzmann equation with frictional force near a global Maxwellian. We generalize our previous results on the same problem for hard sphere model into both hard potential and soft potential case. The main method used in this paper is the classic energy method combined with some new time–velocity weight functions to control the large velocity growth in the nonlinear term for the case of interactions with hard potentials and to deal with the singularity of the cross-section at zero relative velocity for the soft potential case.     

Linearized quantum and relativistic Fokker–Planck–Landau equations

After a recent work on spectral properties and dispersion relations of the linearized classical Fokker–Planck–Landau operator [8], we establish in this paper analogous results for two more realistic collision operators: The first one is the Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator obtained by relativistic calculations of binary interactions, and the second is a collision operator (of Fokker–Planck–Landau type) derived from the Boltzmann operator in which quantum effects have been taken into account. We apply Sobolev–Poincaré inequalities to establish the spectral gap of the linearized operators. Furthermore, the present study permits the precise knowledge of the behaviour of these linear Fokker–Planck–Landau operators including the transport part. Relations between the eigenvalues of these operators and the Fourier‐space variable in a neighbourhood of 0 are then investigated. This study is a first natural step when one looks for solutions near equilibrium and their hydrodynamic limit for the full non‐linear problem in all space in the spirit of several works [3, 6, 20, 2] on the non‐linear Boltzmann equation. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global a priori estimates for the inhomogeneous Landau equation with moderately soft potentials

We establish a priori upper bounds for solutions to the spatially inhomogeneous Landau equation in the case of moderately soft potentials, with arbitrary initial data, under the assumption that mass, energy and entropy densities stay under control. Our pointwise estimates decay polynomially in the velocity variable. We also show that if the initial data satisfies a Gaussian upper bound, this bound is propagated for all positive times.     

Propagation of and Maxwellian weighted bounds for derivatives of solutions to the homogeneous elastic Boltzmann equation

We consider the n-dimensional space homogeneous Boltzmann equation for elastic collisions for variable hard potentials with Grad (angular) cutoff. We prove sharp moment inequalities, the propagation of L¹-Maxwellian weighted estimates, and consequently, the propagation L^∞-Maxwellian weighted estimates to all derivatives of the initial value problem associated to the afore mentioned equation. More specifically, we extend to all derivatives of the initial value problem associated to this class of Boltzmann equations corresponding sharp moment (Povzner) inequalities and time propagation of L¹-Maxwellian weighted estimates as originally developed Bobylev [A.V. Bobylev, Moment inequalities for the Boltzmann equation and applications to spatially homogeneous problems, J. Statist. Phys. 88 (1997) 1183–1214] in the case of hard spheres in 3 dimensions. To achieve this goal we implement the program presented in Bobylev–Gamba–Panferov [A.V. Bobylev, I.M. Gamba, V. Panferov, Moment inequalities and high-energy tails for Boltzmann equation with inelastic interactions, J. Statist. Phys. 116 (5–6) (2004) 1651–1682], which includes a full analysis of the moments by means of sharp moment inequalities and the control of L¹-exponential bounds, in the case of stationary states for different inelastic Boltzmann related problems with ‘heating’ sources where high energy tail decay rates depend on the inelasticity coefficient and the type of ‘heating’ source. More recently, this work was extended to variable hard potentials with angular cutoff by Gamba–Panferov–Villani [I.M. Gamba, V. Panferov, C. Villani, Upper Maxwellian bounds for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation, ARMA (2008), in press] in the elastic case collision case where the L¹-Maxwellian weighted norm was shown to propagate if initial states have such property. In addition, we also extend to all derivatives the propagation of L^∞-Maxwellian weighted estimates, proven in [I.M. Gamba, V. Panferov, C. Villani, Upper Maxwellian bounds for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation, ARMA (2008), in press], to solutions of the initial value problem to the Boltzmann equations for elastic collisions for variable hard potentials with Grad (angular) cutoff.     

Acoustic limit for the Boltzmann equation in the whole space

This paper is devoted to the following rescaled Boltzmann equation in the acoustic time scaling in the whole space

(0.1)     

Strichartz Estimates for Non-selfadjoint Operators and Applications

Abstract

We prove Strichartz type estimates for non-selfadjoint pseudo-differential operators of order m with a curvature condition on the characteristic set. Local solvability results for the corresponding equations with L ^n/m potential (where n > m stands for the number of variables) and for the corresponding semi-linear equations with a non-linearity of order m/n ≤ α ≤ 2m/(n ? m) follow. This is achieved using a parametrix construction and a Brenner inequality for Fourier integral operators with complex phase.     

On the relation between rates of relaxation and convergence of wild sums for solutions of the Kac equation

In the case of Maxwellian molecules, the Wild summation formula gives an expression for the solution of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation in terms of its initial data F as a sum . Here, is an average over n-fold iterated Wild convolutions of F. If M denotes the Maxwellian equilibrium corresponding to F, then it is of interest to determine bounds on the rate at which tends to zero. In the case of the Kac model, we prove that for every ε>0, if F has moments of every order and finite Fisher information, there is a constant C so that for all n, where Λ is the least negative eigenvalue for the linearized collision operator. We show that Λ is the best possible exponent by relating this estimate to a sharp estimate for the rate of relaxation of f(·,t) to M. A key role in the analysis is played by a decomposition of into a smooth part and a small part. This depends in an essential way on a probabilistic construction of McKean. It allows us to circumvent difficulties stemming from the fact that the evolution does not improve the qualitative regularity of the initial data.     

广义Ginzburg-Landau方程和Rangwala Rao方程的显式精确解

该文通过适当代换并结合假设待定法，求出了具高阶非线性项的Liénard方程a″(ξ)+la(ξ)+ma\+\{2p+1\}(ξ)+na\+\{4p+1\}(ξ)=0的三类精确解. 据此求出了广义Ginzburg Landau方程、Rangwala Rao方程及若干 导数schr〖AKo¨D〗dinger型方程的孤波解和三角函数型周期波解.     

奇异积分算子q-变差的定量最优加权估计

本文将定量最优A_p权理论推广到联系于ω-Calderón-Zygmund算子的q-变差情形.这些结果利用了Lerner最新给出的稀疏控制方法来控制q-变差,和Hyt?nen等关于q-变差的最优加权成果相比,本文涉及的ω仅需满足Dini条件,并且其截断是非光滑的.     

Weighted Estimates for the Riemann-Liouville Operators with Variable Limits

We give criteria for boundedness of the fractional integration operators of the Riemann–Liouville type with variable limits between Lebesgue spaces on the real axis.     

Boltzmann collision operator for the infinite range potential: A limit problem

The conventional Boltzmann collision operator for the infinite range inverse power law model was derived by Maxwell by adopting a collision kernel which is a limit of that for the finite range model by ignoring the glancing angles. Since the interpretation of collision operator for the infinite range potential through limit process to the one with finite range potential is natural in regard to the derivation of the Boltzmann equation. It is the purpose of this paper to clarify the physical meaning of the conventional collision operator for the infinite range inverse power law model through the study of the limiting process of the collision operator as the cutoff radius tends to infinity. We first estimate the extent in which the glancing angles can be ignored in the limiting process. Furthermore we prove that taking limit to collision operator with finite range potential directly will lead to the conventional one with algebraic convergence rate.     

The nonlinear boundary layer to the Boltzmann equation with mixed boundary conditions for hard potentials

In this paper, the existence of boundary layer solutions to the Boltzmann equation for hard potential with mixed boundary condition, i.e., a linear combination of Dirichlet boundary condition and diffuse reflection boundary condition at the wall, is considered. The boundary condition is imposed on the incoming particles, and the solution is supposed to approach to a global Maxwellian in the far field. As for the problem with Dirichlet boundary condition (Chen et al., 2004 [5]), the existence of a solution highly depends on the Mach number of the far field Maxwellian. Furthermore, an implicit solvability condition on the boundary data which shows the codimension of the boundary data is related to the number of the positive characteristic speeds is also given.     

A trace formula and high-energy spectral asymptotics for the perturbed Landau Hamiltonian

A two-dimensional Schrödinger operator with a constant magnetic field perturbed by a smooth compactly supported potential is considered. The spectrum of this operator consists of eigenvalues which accumulate to the Landau levels. We call the set of eigenvalues near the nth Landau level an nth eigenvalue cluster, and study the distribution of eigenvalues in the nth cluster as n→∞. A complete asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalue moments in the nth cluster is obtained and some coefficients of this expansion are computed. A trace formula involving the eigenvalue moments is obtained.     

Automatic Symmetrization and Energy Estimates Using Local Operators for Partial Differential Equations

We develop a method for automatically symmetrizing Petrowsky well-posed Cauchy problems for constant coefficient linear partial differential equations. The method is rooted in the Sturm sequence technique for establishing the location of the roots of a complex polynomial and can be automated using standard symbolic computation tools. In the special case of homogeneous strictly hyperbolic scalar equations, we show that the resulting estimates are strong enough to control all principal order derivatives and thus can be used in place of the Leray energies. We also illustrate the method by applying it to various problems of mixed type.     

Well-posedness of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for soft potentials

We consider the spatially homogeneous Landau equation of kinetic theory, and provide a differential inequality for the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between two solutions. We deduce some well-posedness results. The main difficulty is that this equation presents a singularity for small relative velocities. Our uniqueness result is the first one in the important case of soft potentials. Furthermore, it is almost optimal for a class of moderately soft potentials, that is for a moderate singularity. Indeed, in such a case, our result applies for initial conditions with finite mass, energy, and entropy. For the other moderately soft potentials, we assume additionally some moment conditions on the initial data. For very soft potentials, we obtain only a local (in time) well-posedness result, under some integrability conditions. Our proof is probabilistic, and uses a stochastic version of the Landau equation, in the spirit of Tanaka [H. Tanaka, Probabilistic treatment of the Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian molecules, Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Geb. 46 (1) (1978-1979) 67-105].