A coupling approach for the convergence to equilibrium for a collisionless gas

DOI10.1214/21-AAP1696zbMATH Open1495.82026arXiv1910.02739MaRDI QIDQ2134283FDOQ2134283

Authors: Armand Bernou, Nicolas Fournier 

Publication date: 6 May 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use a probabilistic approach to study the rate of convergence to equilibrium for a collisionless (Knudsen) gas in dimension equal to or larger than 2. The use of a coupling between two stochastic processes allows us to extend and refine, in total variation distance, the polynomial rate of convergence given in [AG11] and [KLT13]. This is, to our knowledge, the first quantitative result in collisionless kinetic theory in dimension equal to or larger than 2 that does not require any symmetry of the domain, nor a monokinetic regime. Our study is also more general in terms of reflection at the boundary: we allow for rather general diffusive reflections and for a specular reflection component.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02739

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov processcouplinglong-time behaviourcollisionless gasstochastic billiardssubexponential convergence to equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

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