On the spatially homogeneous landau equation for hard potentials part ii : h-theorem and applications (Q4947026)

The paper is devoted to the spatially Landau equation \[ \partial f/\partial t(t,v)= Q(f,f)(t,v)\quad (v\in\mathbb{R}^N,\;t\geq 0), \] where \(f\) is a nonnegative function and \(Q\) is a nonlinear quadratic operator acting on the variable \(v\) only. A lower bound for the entropy dissipation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with hard potentials in terms of the entropy is found. Explicit estimates on the speed of convergence towards equilibrium for the solution of this equation are shown. In the case of so-called over-Maxwellian potentials, the convergence is exponential. A lower bound for the spectral gap of the associated linear operator in this setting is computed as well.