About Kac's program in kinetic theory

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2011.11.012zbMATH Open1233.35153arXiv1111.3472OpenAlexW1978967411MaRDI QIDQ654545FDOQ654545

Authors: Stéphane Mischler, Clément Mouhot 

Publication date: 28 December 2011

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this Note we present the main results from the recent work arxiv:1107.3251, which answers several conjectures raised fifty years ago by Kac. There Kac introduced a many-particle stochastic process (now denoted as Kac's master equation) which, for chaotic data, converges to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. We answer the three following questions raised in cite{kac}: (1) prove the propagation of chaos for realistic microscopic interactions (i.e. in our results: hard spheres and true Maxwell molecules); (2) relate the time scales of relaxation of the stochastic process and of the limit equation by obtaining rates independent of the number of particles; (3) prove the convergence of the many-particle entropy towards the Boltzmann entropy of the solution to the limit equation (microscopic justification of the $H$-theorem of Boltzmann in this context). These results crucially rely on a new theory of quantitative uniform in time estimates of propagation of chaos.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3472

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60)

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