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In the present work, we consider the asymptotic problem of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation when almost all collisions are grazing, that is, the deviation angle \(\theta \) of the collision is limited near zero (i.e., \(\theta \le \epsilon \)). We show that by taking the proper scaling to the cross-section which was used in [37], that is, assuming
where \(\theta = \langle \theta ={\frac{\upsilon -\upsilon _*}{|\upsilon -\upsilon _*|}}.\sigma \rangle , \) the solution \(f^\epsilon \) of the Boltzmann equation with initial data \(f_0\) can be globally or locally expanded in some weighted Sobolev space as
where the function \(f\) is the solution of Landau equation, which is associated with the grazing collisions limit of Boltzmann equation, with the same initial data \(f_0\). This gives the rigorous justification of the Landau approximation in the spatially homogeneous case. In particular, if taking \(\gamma =-3\) and \(s=1-\epsilon \) in the cross-section \(B^\epsilon \), we show that the above asymptotic formula still holds and in this case \(f\) is the solution of Landau equation with the Coulomb potential. Going further, we revisit the well-posedness problem of the Boltzmann equation in the limiting process. We show there exists a common lifespan such that the uniform estimates of high regularities hold for each solution \(f^\epsilon \). Thanks to the weak convergence results on the grazing collisions limit in [37], in other words, we establish a unified framework to establish the well-posedness results for both Boltzmann and Landau equations.
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The author is supported by NSF of China under Grant 11001149 and 11171173 and the Importation and Development of High-Caliber Talents Project of Beijing Municipal Institutions.
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Appendix
In this section, we shall give the error estimates between the Boltzmann collision operator \( Q^\epsilon (g,h)\) and the Landau operator \(Q_L(g,h)\). We have
Lemma 7.1
Suppose that \(g\) and \(h\) are Schwartz functions. If \(\psi \in L^2\), one has
or
If \(\psi \) verifies
one has
Remark 7.1
As a direct consequence, we have
and for \(|\beta |\ge 3\),
Proof
We shall borrow the idea of [17] to give the estimates. Introduce an orthogonal basis of \({\mathbb {R}}^3\):
Then one has
By change of variable: \(\theta \rightarrow \epsilon \chi \), we have
with
The Boltzmann collision operator \(Q^\epsilon \) can be rewritten as
Here we set
and
Then it gives
Note that
and
where
Then we arrive at
where
Suppose that
then we have
Observe that
with
if \(\gamma >-3\) and
if \(\gamma =-3\).
We also notice that
where
and
if \(\gamma >-3\) and
if \(\gamma =-3\).
Thanks to (82) and the fact
we have
Noticing (83), we arrive at
We denote the righthand side by \(E_1,E_2\) and \(E_3\). Note that
and
one has that
and
When \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81), we have
and
Next we shall give the estimate to \(E_3\). Due to the definition of \(R^1(v,v_*)\) and the fact \(|A^\epsilon |\lesssim \epsilon \chi |v-v_*|\), we obtain that
From which, we deduce that \(E_3\) can be bounded by the sum of \(E_3^i\) with \(i=1,2,3,4\) defined by
It is easy to check that
And when \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81), we have
Noting the fact
for \(\iota \in [0,1]\) and by the change of variable: \(v\rightarrow u= v+(v'-v)\iota \), one has
When \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81), we have
The similar result can be obtained for \(|\langle E^3_3,\langle \cdot \rangle ^l\psi \rangle |\), that is,
When \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81), we have
Set \(\iota (v)=v+(v'-v)\iota \) and \(\kappa (v_*)=v_*+(v_{*}^{\prime }-v_*)\kappa \). Then one has
where we use the change of variable: \(v_*\rightarrow u=\kappa (v_*)\) and the facts
and
We also note
The similar argument can be applied to the case that \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81). One has
Collecting the above estimates, we may arrive at
or
When \(\psi \) verifies the condition (81), one has
Patch together the estimates for \(E_1, E_2\) and \(E_3\), then we finally obtain the desired results. \(\square \)
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He, L. Asymptotic Analysis of the Spatially Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation: Grazing Collisions Limit. J Stat Phys 155, 151–210 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-014-0932-z
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