Quantitative perturbative study of convergence to equilibrium for collisional kinetic models in the torus
Quantitative perturbative study of convergence to equilibrium for collisional kinetic models in the torus
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DOI:
10.1088/0951-7715/19/4/011
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发表时间:
2006-04
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
C. Mouhot;L. Neumann
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作者:
C. Mouhot;L. Neumann
For a general class of linear collisional kinetic models in the torus, including in particular the linearized Boltzmann equation for hard spheres, the linearized Landau equation with hard and moderately soft potentials and the semi-classical linearized fermionic and bosonic relaxation models, we prove explicit coercivity estimates on the associated integro-differential operator for some modified Sobolev norms. We deduce the existence of classical solutions near equilibrium for the full nonlinear models associated with explicit regularity bounds, and we obtain explicit estimates on the rate of exponential convergence towards equilibrium in this perturbative setting. The proof is based on a linear energy method which combines the coercivity property of the collision operator in the velocity space with transport effects, in order to deduce coercivity estimates in the whole phase space.