Propagation of chaos for the Landau equation with moderately soft potentials

DOI10.1214/15-AOP1056zbMATH Open1362.82045arXiv1501.01802OpenAlexW2962881419MaRDI QIDQ504241FDOQ504241

Authors: Nicolas Fournier, Maxime Hauray 

Publication date: 13 January 2017

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

Abstract: We consider the 3D Landau equation for moderately soft potentials ($gammain(-2,0)$ with the usual notation) as well as a stochastic system of $N$ particles approximating it. We first establish some strong/weak stability estimates for the Landau equation, which are satisfying only when $gammain[-1,0)$. We next prove, under some appropriate conditions on the initial data, the so-called propagation of molecular chaos, i.e. that the empirical measure of the particle system converges to the unique solution of the Landau equation. The main difficulty is the presence of a singularity in the equation. When $gammain(-1,0)$, the strong-weak uniqueness estimate allows us to use a coupling argument and to obtain a rate of convergence. When $gammain(-2,-1]$, we use the classical martingale method introduced by McKean. To control the singularity, we have to take advantage of the regularity provided by the entropy dissipation. Unfortunately, this dissipation is too weak for some (very rare) aligned configurations. We thus introduce a perturbed system with an additional noise, show the propagation of chaos for that perturbed system and finally prove that the additional noise is almost never used in the limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01802

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zbMATH Keywords

uniquenessentropy dissipationFisher informationpropagation of chaosstochastic particle systemsLandau equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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