arXiv · 1907.12836
Quantitative Rates of Convergence to Equilibrium for the Degenerate Linear Boltzmann equation on the Torus
Abstract
We study the linear relaxation Boltzmann equation on the torus with a spatially varying jump rate which can be zero on large sections of the domain. In \cite{BS13} Bernard and Salvarani showed that this equation converges exponentially fast to equilibrium if and only if the jump rate satisfies the geometric control condition of Bardos, Lebeau and Rauch \cite{BLR91}. In \cite{HL15} Han-Kwan and L\'{e}autaud showed a more general result for linear Boltzmann equations under the action of potentials in different geometric contexts, including the case of unbounded velocities. In this paper we obtain quantitative rates of convergence to equilibrium when the geometric control condition is satisfied, using a probabilistic approach based on Doeblin's theorem from Markov chains.
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Josephine Evans, Ivan Moyano. 2019-07-30. Quantitative Rates of Convergence to Equilibrium for the Degenerate Linear Boltzmann equation on the Torus. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12836
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