Infinite energy solutions to inelastic homogeneous Boltzmann equations

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with the existence, shape and dynamical stability of infinite-energy equilibria for a general class of spatially homogeneous kinetic equations in space dimensions dgeq3. Our results cover in particular Bobyl"ev's model for inelastic Maxwell molecules. First, we show under certain conditions on the collision kernel, that there exists an index alphain(0,2) such that the equation possesses a nontrivial stationary solution, which is a scale mixture of radially symmetric alpha-stable laws. We also characterize the mixing distribution as the fixed point of a smoothing transformation. Second, we prove that any transient solution that emerges from the NDA of some (not necessarily radial symmetric) alpha-stable distribution converges to an equilibrium. The key element of the convergence proof is an application of the central limit theorem to a representation of the transient solution as a weighted sum of i.i.d. random vectors.









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