{"title":"A Lie algebra-theoretic approach to characterisation of collision invariants of the Boltzmann equation for general convex particles","authors":"Mark Wilkinson","doi":"10.3934/krm.2022008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2022008","url":null,"abstract":"<p style='text-indent:20px;'>By studying scattering Lie groups and their associated Lie algebras, we introduce a new method for the characterisation of collision invariants for physical scattering families associated to smooth, convex hard particles in the particular case that the collision invariant is of class <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M1\">begin{document}$ mathscr{C}^{1} $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. This work extends that of Saint-Raymond and Wilkinson (<i>Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics</i> (2018), 71(8), pp. 1494–1534), in which the authors characterise collision invariants only in the case of the so-called <i>canonical</i> physical scattering family. Indeed, our method extends to the case of <i>non-canonical</i> physical scattering, whose existence was reported in Wilkinson (<i>Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis</i> (2020), 235(3), pp. 2055–2083). Moreover, our new method improves upon the work in Saint-Raymond and Wilkinson as we place no symmetry hypotheses on the underlying non-spherical particles which make up the gas under consideration. The techniques established in this paper also yield a new proof of the result of Boltzmann for collision invariants of class <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M2\">begin{document}$ mathscr{C}^{1} $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> in the classical case of hard spheres.</p>","PeriodicalId":393586,"journal":{"name":"Kinetic & Related Models","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126808420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formal derivation of quantum drift-diffusion equations with spin-orbit interaction","authors":"L. Barletti, Philipp Holzinger, A. Jungel","doi":"10.3934/krm.2022007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2022007","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum drift-diffusion equations for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions of Rashba type are formally derived from a collisional Wigner equation. The collisions are modeled by a Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook-type operator describing the relaxation of the electron gas to a local equilibrium that is given by the quantum maximum entropy principle. Because of non-commutativity properties of the operators, the standard diffusion scaling cannot be used in this context, and a hydrodynamic time scaling is required. A Chapman–Enskog procedure leads, up to first order in the relaxation time, to a system of nonlocal quantum drift-diffusion equations for the charge density and spin vector densities. Local equations including the Bohm potential are obtained in the semiclassical expansion up to second order in the scaled Planck constant. The main novelty of this work is that all spin components are considered, while previous models only consider special spin directions.","PeriodicalId":393586,"journal":{"name":"Kinetic & Related Models","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115801128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equation for the convergence to a given equilibrium","authors":"A. Arnold, Beatrice Signorello","doi":"10.3934/krm.2022009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2022009","url":null,"abstract":"<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper is concerned with finding Fokker-Planck equations in <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M1\">begin{document}$ mathbb{R}^d $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> with the fastest exponential decay towards a given equilibrium. For a prescribed, anisotropic Gaussian we determine a non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equation with linear drift that shows the highest exponential decay rate for the convergence of its solutions towards equilibrium. At the same time it has to allow for a decay estimate with a multiplicative constant arbitrarily close to its infimum.</p><p style='text-indent:20px;'>Such an \"optimal\" Fokker-Planck equation is constructed explicitly with a diffusion matrix of rank one, hence being hypocoercive. In an <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M2\">begin{document}$ L^2 $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>–analysis, we find that the maximum decay rate equals the maximum eigenvalue of the inverse covariance matrix, and that the infimum of the attainable multiplicative constant is 1, corresponding to the high-rotational limit in the Fokker-Planck drift. This analysis is complemented with numerical illustrations in 2D, and it includes a case study for time-dependent coefficient matrices.</p>","PeriodicalId":393586,"journal":{"name":"Kinetic & Related Models","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127241292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local conditional regularity for the Landau equation with Coulomb potential","authors":"Immanuel Ben Porat","doi":"10.3934/krm.2022010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2022010","url":null,"abstract":"<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper studies the regularity of Villani solutions of the space homogeneous Landau equation with Coulomb interaction in dimension 3. Specifically, we prove that any such solution belonging to the Lebesgue space <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M1\">begin{document}$ L_{t}^{infty}L_{v}^{q} $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M2\">begin{document}$ q>3 $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> in an open cylinder <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M3\">begin{document}$ (0,S)times B $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M4\">begin{document}$ B $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> is an open ball of <inline-formula><tex-math id=\"M5\">begin{document}$ mathbb{R}^{3} $end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, must have Hölder continuous second order derivatives in the velocity variables, and first order derivative in the time variable locally in any compact subset of that cylinder.</p>","PeriodicalId":393586,"journal":{"name":"Kinetic & Related Models","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133289863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}