Rate of convergence to equilibrium for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard potentials

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DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1455-XzbMATH Open1113.82062arXivmath/0605688OpenAlexW2160199745MaRDI QIDQ852363FDOQ852363


Authors: Clément Mouhot Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 November 2006

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

Abstract: For the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard po- tentials and Grad's cutoff (e.g. hard spheres), we give quantitative estimates of exponential convergence to equilibrium, and we show that the rate of exponential decay is governed by the spectral gap for the linearized equation, on which we provide a lower bound. Our approach is based on establishing spectral gap-like estimates valid near the equilibrium, and then connecting the latter to the quantitative nonlinear theory. This leads us to an explicit study of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator in functional spaces larger than the usual linearization setting.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605688




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