Optimal time decay of the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in R^3

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DOI10.1007/S00205-010-0318-6zbMATH Open1232.35169arXiv0912.1742OpenAlexW2011560272MaRDI QIDQ717428FDOQ717428


Authors: Renjun Duan, Robert M. Strain Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 October 2011

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System governs the time evolution of the distribution function for the dilute charged particles in the presence of a self-consistent electric potential force through the Poisson equation. In this paper, we are concerned with the rate of convergence of solutions to equilibrium for this system over mathbbR3. It is shown that the electric field which is indeed responsible for the lowest-order part in the energy space reduces the speed of convergence and hence the dispersion of this system over the full space is slower than that of the Boltzmann equation without forces, where the exact difference between both power indices in the algebraic rates of convergence is 1/4. For the proof, in the linearized case with a given non-homogeneous source, Fourier analysis is employed to obtain time-decay properties of the solution operator. In the nonlinear case, the combination of the linearized results and the nonlinear energy estimates with the help of the proper Lyapunov-type inequalities leads to the optimal time-decay rate of perturbed solutions under some conditions on initial data.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1742




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