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Estimates for radial
solutions of the homogeneous Landau equation with Coulomb
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Maria Pia Gualdani and Nestor Guillen |
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Vol. 9 (2016), No. 8, 1773–1810
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Abstract |
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Motivated by the question of existence of global solutions, we obtain pointwise upper bounds for radially symmetric and monotone solutions to the homogeneous Landau equation with Coulomb potential. The estimates say that blow-up in the norm at some finite time occurs only if a certain quotient involving and its Newtonian potential concentrates near zero, which implies blow-up in more standard norms, such as the norm. This quotient is shown to be always less than a universal constant, suggesting that the problem of regularity for the Landau equation is in some sense critical. The bounds are obtained using the comparison principle both for the Landau equation and for the associated mass function. In particular, the method provides long-time existence results for a modified version of the Landau equation with Coulomb potential, recently introduced by Krieger and Strain. |
Keywords
Landau equation, Coulomb potential, homogeneous solutions,
upper bounds, barriers, regularity
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 35B65, 35K57, 35B44, 35K61, 35Q20
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Milestones
Received: 4 May 2015
Revised: 15 June 2016
Accepted: 28 August 2016
Published: 11 December 2016
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Authors |
| Maria Pia Gualdani | |
| Department of Mathematics George Washington University 2115 G Street NW Monroe Hall 272 Washington, DC 20052 United States |
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| Nestor Guillen | |
| Department of Mathematics and
Statistics University of Massachussetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-9305 United States |
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