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Main Authors: Lin, Yu-Chu, Wang, Haitao, Wu, Kung-Chien
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11253
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author Lin, Yu-Chu
Wang, Haitao
Wu, Kung-Chien
author_facet Lin, Yu-Chu
Wang, Haitao
Wu, Kung-Chien
contents We study the quantitative pointwise behavior of solutions to the Boltzmann equation for hard potentials and Maxwellian molecules, which generalize the hard sphere case introduced by Liu-Yu in 2004 (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57:1543-1608, 2004). The large time behavior of the solution is dominated by fluid structures, similar to the hard sphere case. However, unlike hard sphere, the spatial decay here depends on the potential power $γ$ and the initial velocity weight. A key challenge in this problem is the loss of velocity weight in linear estimates, which makes standard nonlinear iteration infeasible. To address this, we develop an Enhanced Mixture Lemma, demonstrating that mixing the transport and gain parts of the linearized collision operator can generate arbitrary-order regularity and decay in both space and velocity variables. This allows us to decompose the linearized solution into fluid (arbitrary regularity and velocity decay) and particle (rapid space-time decay, but with loss of velocity decay) parts, making it possible to solve the nonlinear problem through this particle-fluid duality.
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spellingShingle Space-time structure and particle-fluid duality of solutions for Boltzmann equation with hard potentials
Lin, Yu-Chu
Wang, Haitao
Wu, Kung-Chien
Analysis of PDEs
We study the quantitative pointwise behavior of solutions to the Boltzmann equation for hard potentials and Maxwellian molecules, which generalize the hard sphere case introduced by Liu-Yu in 2004 (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57:1543-1608, 2004). The large time behavior of the solution is dominated by fluid structures, similar to the hard sphere case. However, unlike hard sphere, the spatial decay here depends on the potential power $γ$ and the initial velocity weight. A key challenge in this problem is the loss of velocity weight in linear estimates, which makes standard nonlinear iteration infeasible. To address this, we develop an Enhanced Mixture Lemma, demonstrating that mixing the transport and gain parts of the linearized collision operator can generate arbitrary-order regularity and decay in both space and velocity variables. This allows us to decompose the linearized solution into fluid (arbitrary regularity and velocity decay) and particle (rapid space-time decay, but with loss of velocity decay) parts, making it possible to solve the nonlinear problem through this particle-fluid duality.
title Space-time structure and particle-fluid duality of solutions for Boltzmann equation with hard potentials
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11253