The Landau equation as a Gradient Flow

DOI10.2140/APDE.2024.17.1331arXiv2007.08591OpenAlexW3043116631MaRDI QIDQ6345256FDOQ6345256

Authors: J. A. Carrillo, Matias G. Delgadino, Laurent Desvillettes, Jeremy S.-H. Wu 

Publication date: 16 July 2020

Abstract: We propose a gradient flow perspective to the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for soft potentials. We construct a tailored metric on the space of probability measures based on the entropy dissipation of the Landau equation. Under this metric, the Landau equation can be characterized as the gradient flow of the Boltzmann entropy. In particular, we characterize the dynamics of the PDE through a functional inequality which is usually referred as the Energy Dissipation Inequality. Furthermore, analogous to the optimal transportation setting, we show that this interpretation can be used in a minimizing movement scheme to construct solutions to a regularized Landau equation.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/apde.2024.17.1331

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) 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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