Long time behavior of the Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation (Q403540)

The initial value problem for the Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation is considered with the initial data near the absolute Maxwellian. The Fokker-Planck operator has a drift term, while the bilinear collision operator is taken as the hard sphere model for elastic collision. The core of the method lies in decomposing additively the distribution function into a locally Maxwellian fluid part and the microscopic part which allows to linearize a collision operator. Earlier research due to \textit{H.-L. Li} [Bull. Inst. Math., Acad. Sin. (N.S.) 2, No. 4, 921--933 (2007; Zbl 1135.82026)] has developed an approximate scheme allowing to prove a local existence of classical solutions. By employing suitable uniform energy estimates and the Sobolev embedding theorem, one can extend the short time classical solution globally in time by the standard continuity argument. The long time behavior of the global solution is based on the Fourier transform and the usage of a compensating function, cf. [\textit{R. T. Glassey}, The Cauchy problem in kinetic theory. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM (1996; Zbl 0858.76001)].