Smoothing effect of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation with measure valued initial datum

Yoshinori Morimoto*, Tong Yang

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Abstract

We justify the smoothing effect for measure valued solutions to the space homogeneous Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian type cross sections. This is the first rigorous proof of the smoothing effect for any measure valued initial data except the single Dirac mass, which gives the optimal description on the regularity of solutions for positive time, caused by the singularity in the cross section. The main new ingredient in the proof is the introduction of a time degenerate coercivity estimate by using the microlocal analysis.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)429-442
JournalAnnales de l'Institut Henri Poincare. Annales: Analyse Non Lineaire/Nonlinear Analysis
Volume32
Issue number2
Online published28 Jan 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2015

Research Keywords

  • Boltzmann equation
  • Coercivity estimate
  • Measure initial datum
  • Smoothing effect

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