Existence of self-similar profile for a kinetic annihilation model (Q1943484)

The authors derive the existence of a self-similar solution associated to the probabilistic annihilation equation \[ \partial_tf(t,v)=(1-\alpha)\Theta(f,f)(t,v)-\alpha\Theta_-(f,f)(t,v)=\mathbf{B}(f,f)(t,v), \] where \(\alpha\in(0,1)\), \(\Theta\) is the quadratic Boltzmann collision operator defined by the bilinear symmetrized form \[ \Theta(g,f)(v)=\frac{1}{2}\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{S}^{d-1}}\mathbb{B}(v-v_*,\sigma) (g'_*f'+g'f'_*-g_*f-gf_*)dv_*d\sigma; \] here, \(f=f(v)\), \(f'=f(v')\), \(g_*=g(v'_*)\) with postcollisional velocities \(v'\) and \(v'_*\) parametrized by \[ v'=\frac{v+v_*}{2}+\frac{v-v_*}{2}\sigma,\quad v'_*=\frac{v+v_*}{2}-\frac{v-v_*}{2}\sigma,\quad\sigma\in\mathbb{S}^{d-1}. \] The loss part \(\Theta_-\) is defined as \[ \Theta_-(f,f)(v)=f(v)L(f)v),\quad\text{with }L(f)(v)=\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{S}^{d-1}}\mathbb{B}(v-v_*,\sigma)f_*dv_*d\sigma, \] and \[ \mathbf{B}(f,f):=(1-\alpha)\Theta(f,f)(t,v)-\alpha\Theta_-(f,f)(t,v), \] the collision kernel is given by \[ \mathbb{B}(v-v_*,\sigma)=\Phi(|v-v_*|)b(\cos\theta), \] where \(\cos\theta=\langle\frac{v-v_*}{|v-v_*|}\rangle\) and \(\Phi(|v-v_*|)=|v-v_*|^\gamma\), \(\gamma\in (0,1]\), \(b(\cdot)\) is constant corresponding to hard-spheres interactions which is the model usually considered in the physics literature.