Global classical solutions of the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions

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Abstract: In this work we prove global stability for the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse power intermolecular potentials, r(p1) with p>2. This completes the work which we began in (arXiv:0912.0888v1). We more generally cover collision kernels with parameters sin(0,1) and gamma satisfying gamma>(n2)2s in arbitrary dimensions mathbbTnimesmathbbRn with nge2. Moreover, we prove rapid convergence as predicted by the Boltzmann H-Theorem. When gamma+2sge0, we have exponential time decay to the Maxwellian equilibrium states. When gamma+2s<0, our solutions decay polynomially fast in time with any rate. These results are constructive. Additionally, we prove sharp constructive upper and lower bounds for the linearized collision operator in terms of a geometric fractional Sobolev norm; we thus observe that a spectral gap exists only when gamma+2sge0, as conjectured in Mouhot-Strain (2007).




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