Convergence to equilibrium for linear spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard and soft potentials: a semigroup approach in L^1-spaces

DOI10.1002/MMA.4473zbMATH Open1387.35442arXiv1510.02361OpenAlexW2262694644MaRDI QIDQ3133984FDOQ3133984

Authors: Bertrand Lods, Mustapha Mokhtar-Kharroubi 

Publication date: 8 February 2018

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the large time behavior of solutions to the spatially homogeneous linear Boltzmann equation from a semigroup viewpoint. Our analysis is performed in some (weighted) $L^1$-spaces. We deal with both the cases of hard and soft potentials (with angular cut-off). For hard potentials, we provide a new proof of the fact that, in weighted $L^1$-spaces with exponential or algebraic weights, the solutions converge exponentially fast towards equilibrium. Our approach uses weak-compactness arguments combined with recent results of the second author on positive semigroups in $L^1$-spaces. For soft potentials, in $L^1$-spaces, we exploits the convergence to ergodic projection for perturbed substochastic semigroup to show that, for very general initial datum, solutions to the linear Boltzmann equation converges to equilibrium in large time. Moreover, for a large class of initial data, we also prove that the convergence rate is at least algebraic. Notice that, for soft potentials, no exponential rate of convergence is expected because of the absence of spectral gap.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02361

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zbMATH Keywords

linear Boltzmann equationpositive semigroupergodic projectionsoft and hard potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06)

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