Well-posedness of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for soft potentials

Details Well-posedness of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for soft potentials Well-posedness of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for soft potentials

2008-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/0806.3379v1

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We consider the spatially homogeneous Landau equation of kinetic theory, and provide a differential inequality for the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between two solutions. We deduce some well-posedness results. The main difficulty is that this equation presents a singularity for small relative velocities. Our uniqueness result is the first one in the important case of soft potentials. Furthermore, it is almost optimal for a class of moderately soft potentials, that is for a moderate singularity. Indeed, in such a case, our result applies for initial conditions with finite mass, energy, and entropy. For the other moderatley soft potentials, we assume additionnally some moment conditions on the initial data. For very soft potentials, we obtain only a local (in time) well-posedness result, under some integrability conditions. Our proof is probabilistic, and uses a stochastic version of the Landau equation, in the spirit of Tanaka.

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