The global existence and large time behavior of smooth compressible fluid in an infinitely expanding ball. III: The 3-D Boltzmann equation (Q2410303)

The purpose of this article is to continue the studies of compressible fluids in an infinite ball using the Boltzmann equation. After a change of variables the Boltzmann equation becomes (1). The main theorem proves the existence of a unique, global mild solution of (1) with certain initial boundary data. The proofs consist of several steps and use backward trajectory, null-space of linearized collision operator, \(L^2\)-estimate of solutions to the linear Boltzmann equation, and conservation laws of mass and energy. For Part I and II see [the first author and \textit{G. Xu}, ``The global existence and large time behavior of smooth compressible fluid in an infinitely expanding ball. I: 3D Euler equations'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1706.01183}; the first author and {Ł. Zhang}, ``The global existence and large time behavior of smooth compressible fluid in an infinitely expanding ball. II: 3D Navier-Stokes equations'', Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 28, No. 3, 1063--1102 (2018; \url{doi:10.3934/dcds.2018045})].