A consistency estimate for Kac's model of elastic collisions in a dilute gas

DOI10.1214/15-AAP1111zbMATH Open1339.60140arXiv1405.2742OpenAlexW2257593935MaRDI QIDQ292918FDOQ292918

Authors: James R. Norris 

Publication date: 9 June 2016

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

Abstract: An explicit estimate is derived for Kac's mean-field model of colliding hard spheres, which compares, in a Wasserstein distance, the empirical velocity distributions for two versions of the model based on different numbers of particles. For suitable initial data, with high probability, the two processes agree to within a tolerance of order $N^{-1/d}$, where $N$ is the smaller particle number and $d$ is the dimension, provided that $dge3$. From this estimate we can deduce that the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation is well posed in a class of measure-valued processes and provides a good approximation to the Kac process when the number of particles is large. We also prove in an appendix a basic lemma on the total variation of time-integrals of time-dependent signed measures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2742

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zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein distancelaw of large numbersBoltzmann equationdilute gaselastic collisionsKac model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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