Dynamical Billiard and a long-time behavior of the Boltzmann equation in general 3D toroidal domains

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Auteurs principaux: Ko, Gyounghun, Kim, Chanwoo, Lee, Donghyun
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author Ko, Gyounghun
Kim, Chanwoo
Lee, Donghyun
author_facet Ko, Gyounghun
Kim, Chanwoo
Lee, Donghyun
contents Establishing global well-posedness and convergence toward equilibrium of the Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition has been one of the central questions in the subject of kinetic theory. Despite recent significant progress in this question when domains are strictly convex, as shown by Guo and Kim-Lee, the same question without the strict convexity of domains is still totally open in 3D. The major difficulty arises when a billiard map has an infinite number of bounces in a finite time interval or when the map fails to be Lipschitz continuous, both of which happen generically when the domain is non-convex. In this paper, we develop a new method to control a billiard map on a surface of revolution generated by revolving any planar analytic convex closed curve (e.g., typical shape of tokamak reactors' chamber). In particular, we classify and measure the size (to be small) of a pullback set (along the billiard trajectory) of the infinite-bouncing and singular-bouncing cases. As a consequence, we solve the open question affirmatively in such domains. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first construction of global solutions to the hard-sphere Boltzmann equation in generic non-convex 3-dimensional domains. In Appendix, we introduce a novel method for constructive coercivity of a linearized collision operator $L$ when the specular boundary condition is imposed. In particular, this method works for a periodic cylindrical domain with an annulus cross-section.
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spellingShingle Dynamical Billiard and a long-time behavior of the Boltzmann equation in general 3D toroidal domains
Ko, Gyounghun
Kim, Chanwoo
Lee, Donghyun
Analysis of PDEs
82B40, 82C40, 82D05
Establishing global well-posedness and convergence toward equilibrium of the Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition has been one of the central questions in the subject of kinetic theory. Despite recent significant progress in this question when domains are strictly convex, as shown by Guo and Kim-Lee, the same question without the strict convexity of domains is still totally open in 3D. The major difficulty arises when a billiard map has an infinite number of bounces in a finite time interval or when the map fails to be Lipschitz continuous, both of which happen generically when the domain is non-convex. In this paper, we develop a new method to control a billiard map on a surface of revolution generated by revolving any planar analytic convex closed curve (e.g., typical shape of tokamak reactors' chamber). In particular, we classify and measure the size (to be small) of a pullback set (along the billiard trajectory) of the infinite-bouncing and singular-bouncing cases. As a consequence, we solve the open question affirmatively in such domains. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first construction of global solutions to the hard-sphere Boltzmann equation in generic non-convex 3-dimensional domains. In Appendix, we introduce a novel method for constructive coercivity of a linearized collision operator $L$ when the specular boundary condition is imposed. In particular, this method works for a periodic cylindrical domain with an annulus cross-section.
title Dynamical Billiard and a long-time behavior of the Boltzmann equation in general 3D toroidal domains
topic Analysis of PDEs
82B40, 82C40, 82D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04530