Local Existence for the Spatially Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation with Soft Potentials

Publication date 14 May 2013

PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Integro-differential operators (47G20) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

Abstract: We prove a local-in-time existence and uniqueness theorem for a smooth classical solution to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cutoff soft potentials. Our proof is based on a series of bilinear estimates for the integrability and Sobolev regularity of the associated collision operator. While the global-in-time existence is left inconclusive, we give a lower bound of the maximal time of existence and a necessary condition for finite time extinction of existence.

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