6.
We study the half-space problem of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation, assigning the Dirichlet data for outgoing particles
at the boundary and a Maxwellian as the far field. We will show that the solvability of the problem changes with the Mach
number ℳ
∞ of the far Maxwellian. If ℳ
∞<−1, there exists a unique smooth solution connecting the Dirichlet data and the far Maxwellian for any Dirichlet data sufficiently
close to the far Maxwellian. Otherwise, such a solution exists only for the Dirichlet data satisfying certain admissible conditions.
The set of admissible Dirichlet data forms a smooth manifold of codimension 1 for the case −1<ℳ
∞<0, 4 for 0<ℳ
∞<1 and 5 for ℳ
∞>1, respectively. We also show that the same is true for the linearized problem at the far Maxwellian, and the manifold is,
then, a hyperplane. The proof is essentially based on the macro-micro or hydrodynamics-kinetic decomposition of solutions
combined with an artificial damping term and a spatially exponential decay weight.
Received: 20 April 2002 / Accepted: 4 December 2002
Published online: 21 March 2003
Communicated by H.-T. Yau
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