A new regularization possibility for the Boltzmann equation with soft potentials

DOI10.3934/KRM.2008.1.405MaRDI QIDQ958343zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Fournier

Publication date 3 December 2008

Published in Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3458

zbMATH Keywords

singularityGrad's angular cutoff

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

Abstract: We consider a simplified Boltzmann equation: spatially homogeneous, two-dimensional, radially symmetric, with Grad's angular cutoff, and linearized around its initial condition. We prove that for a sufficiently singular velocity cross section, the solution may become instantaneously a function, even if the initial condition is a singular measure. To our knowledge, this is the first regularization result in the case with cutoff: all the previous results were relying on the non-integrability of the angular cross section. Furthermore, our result is quite surprising: the regularization occurs for initial conditions that are not too singular, but also not too regular. The objective of the present work is to explain that the singularity of the velocity cross section, which is often considered as a (technical) obstacle to regularization, seems on the contrary to help the regularization.

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