Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel (Q637516)

This paper is devoted to considerations of mass-conserving self-similar solutions for the Smoluchowski coagulation equation with specific kernel given by \(K(\xi,\eta)=(\xi\eta)^\lambda\) when \(\lambda\in(1,1/2)\). Solutions \(g(x)\) for this equation satisfy that \(x^{-1+2\lambda}g(x)\) is bounded from above and below as \(x\to 0\), and the authors describe in detail via formal asymptotics the quantitative behavior of the function \(h(x)\) in the limit \(\lambda\rightarrow 0\). This function has a direct connection with \(g(x)\) via \(h(x)=h_\lambda x^{-1+2\lambda}g(x)\). The problem considered in this paper is connected with other papers where the rate on coalescence of clusters of size \(\xi\) and \(\eta\) at time \(t\) are represented by different kernels \(K(\xi,\eta)\). For those cases where \(K\) is constant or additive, there are complete solutions but for other kernels not necessarily. For the kernel \((\xi\eta)^\lambda\), a solution is known but in the paper an asymptotic description in the regime when \(\lambda\rightarrow 0\) is given. The presented considerations can be related to such cases when the kernel as a final product gives power law behavior of solutions and the point \(\lambda=0\) can be thought of as a bifurcation point. The paper is divided into seven sections. The introduction and the preliminary section present basic considerations about the coagulation equation. In Section 3, we have a detailed analysis of the behavior of \(h(x)\) when \(x\rightarrow 0\) with oscillatory solutions. The most important part of this section is the set of equations (23)--(25) that defines the basis of all considerations in the next sections. Section 4 describes the intermediate regime: solutions of (23)--(25) for \(\lambda E\approx 1\). The last three sections deal with different possibilities in the case of solutions for (23)--(25).