Mathematical treatment of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules in the presence of singular kernels (Q893371)

The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of weak solutions for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules, with initial data from the space of Borel probability measures in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). The rather long main theorem assumes a very weak cutoff condition for the angular collision kernel, \( \int_{-1}^1x^2b(x)dx<\infty\). The proofs, which are divided into several lemmata, use the Arkeryd approach for Boltzmann equations, all the basic theorems from real analysis, the special orthogonal group, Levy's continuity theorem, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, and Lyapunov and Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities.