Newtonian limit and trend to equilibrium for the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation

DOI10.1063/1.4793991zbMATH Open1288.82048arXiv1107.5140OpenAlexW1963641576MaRDI QIDQ5397756FDOQ5397756

Authors: José Antonio Alcántara Felix, Simone Calogero 

Publication date: 24 February 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The relativistic Fokker-Planck equation, in which the speed of light $c$ appears as a parameter, is considered. It is shown that in the limit $coinfty$ its solutions converge in $L^1$ to solutions of the non-relativistic Fokker-Planck equation, uniformly in compact intervals of time. Moreover in the case of spatially homogeneous solutions, and provided the temperature of the thermal bath is sufficiently small, exponential trend to equilibrium in $L^1$ is established. The dependence of the rate of convergence on the speed of light is estimated. Finally, it is proved that exponential convergence to equilibrium for all temperatures holds in a weighted $L^2$ norm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5140

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zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationrelativistic casenonrelativistic caseglobal thermodynamical equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Special relativity (83A05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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