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José Alfredo Cañizo

Publications and source records attributed to José Alfredo Cañizo.

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arXiv2026

Sharp asymptotic behaviour of symmetric and non-symmetric solutions of the Heat Equation in the Hyperbolic Space

In this work we study the large-time behaviour of solutions of the Heat Equation in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^d$, providing precise speeds of convergence in $L^1$ and $L^\infty$ to their asymptotic profiles by means of an adaptation of entropy estimates. For $L^1$ initial conditions we are able to identify the asymptotic profile in $L^1$, which is not universal but contains a certain memory of the initial distribution of the mass of the solution. We improve thus on previous results, where speed of convergence was absent and asymptotic profiles where not known in the general case, and show a way to adapt entropy estimates employed in the study of diffusion processes to non-compact Riemannian manifolds. The main strategy to prove this is to consider transient profiles as minimizers of the entropy functional. These profiles are time-dependent and encompass the geometric information of the Riemannian manifold.

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arXiv2015

Exponential trend to equilibrium for the inelastic Boltzmann equationdriven by a particle bath

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres (with constant restitution coefficient $α\in (0,1)$) under the thermalization induced by a host medium with a fixed Maxwellian distribution. We prove that the solution to the associated initial-value problem converges exponentially fast towards the unique equilibrium solution. The proof combines a careful spectral analysis of the linearised semigroup as well as entropy estimates. The trend towards equilibrium holds in the weakly inelastic regime in which $α$ is close to $1$, and the rate of convergence is explicit and depends solely on the spectral gap of the \emph{elastic} linearised collision operator.

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arXiv2012

A new approach to the creation and propagation of exponential moments in the Boltzmann equation

We study the creation and propagation of exponential moments of solutions to the spatially homogeneous $d$-dimensional Boltzmann equation. In particular, when the collision kernel is of the form $|v-v_*|^βb(\cos(θ))$ for $β\in (0,2]$ with $\cos(θ)= |v-v_*|^{-1}(v-v_*)\cdot σ$ and $σ\in \mathbb{S}^{d-1}$, and assuming the classical cut-off condition $ b(\cos(θ))$ integrable in $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$, we prove that there exists $a > 0$ such that moments with weight $\exp(a \min{t,1} |v|^β)$ are finite for $t>0$, where $a$ only depends on the collision kernel and the initial mass and energy. We propose a novel method of proof based on a single differential inequality for the exponential moment with time-dependent coefficients.

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arXiv2011

Uniqueness in the weakly inelastic regime of the equilibrium state of the inelastic Boltzmann equation driven by a particle bath

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard-spheres (with constant restitution coefficient $α\in (0,1)$) under the thermalization induced by a host medium with a fixed Maxwellian distribution. We prove uniqueness of the stationary solution (with given mass) in the weakly inelastic regime; i.e., for any inelasticity parameter $α\in (α_0,1)$, with some constructive $α_0 \in [0, 1)$. Our analysis is based on a perturbative argument which uses the knowledge of the stationary solution in the elastic limit and quantitative estimates of the convergence of stationary solutions as the inelasticity parameter goes to 1. In order to achieve this we give an accurate spectral analysis of the associated linearized collision operator in the elastic limit. Several qualitative properties of this unique steady state $F_α$ are also derived; in particular, we prove that $F_α$ is bounded from above and from below by two explicit universal (i.e. independent of $α$) Maxwellian distributions.

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arXiv2010

Stochastic Mean-Field Limit: Non-Lipschitz Forces \& Swarming

We consider general stochastic systems of interacting particles with noise which are relevant as models for the collective behavior of animals, and rigorously prove that in the mean-field limit the system is close to the solution of a kinetic PDE. Our aim is to include models widely studied in the literature such as the Cucker-Smale model, adding noise to the behavior of individuals. The difficulty, as compared to the classical case of globally Lipschitz potentials, is that in several models the interaction potential between particles is only locally Lipschitz, the local Lipschitz constant growing to infinity with the size of the region considered. With this in mind, we present an extension of the classical theory for globally Lipschitz interactions, which works for only locally Lipschitz ones.

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arXiv2009

Regularity, asymptotic behavior and partial uniqueness for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation

We consider Smoluchowski's equation with a homogeneous kernel of the form $a(x,y) = x^αy ^β+ x^βy^α$ with $-1 < α\leq β< 1$ and $λ:= α+ β\in (-1,1)$. We first show that self-similar solutions of this equation are infinitely differentiable and prove sharp results on the behavior of self-similar profiles at $y = 0$ in the case $α< 0$. We also give some partial uniqueness results for self-similar profiles: in the case $α= 0$ we prove that two profiles with the same mass and moment of order $λ$ are necessarily equal, while in the case $α< 0$ we prove that two profiles with the same moments of order $α$ and $β$, and which are asymptotic at $y=0$, are equal. Our methods include a new representation of the coagulation operator, and estimates of its regularity using derivatives of fractional order.

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arXiv2008

Rate of convergence to self-similarity for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with constant coefficients

We show that solutions to Smoluchowski's equation with a constant coagulation kernel and an initial datum with some regularity and exponentially decaying tail converge exponentially fast to a self-similar profile. This convergence holds in a weighted Sobolev norm which implies the L\^2 convergence of derivatives up to a certain order k depending on the regularity of the initial condition. We prove these results through the study of the linearized coagulation equation in self-similar variables, for which we show a spectral gap in a scale of weighted Sobolev spaces. We also take advantage of the fact that the Laplace or Fourier transforms of this equation can be explicitly solved in this case.

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arXiv2007

Convergence to equilibrium for the discrete coagulation-fragmentation equations with detailed balance

Under the condition of detailed balance and some additional restrictions on the size of the coefficients, we identify the equilibrium distribution to which solutions of the discrete coagulation-fragmentation system of equations converge for large times, thus showing that there is a critical mass which marks a change in the behavior of the solutions. This was previously known only for particular cases as the generalized Becker-Döring equations. Our proof is based on an inequality between the entropy and the entropy production which also gives some information on the rate of convergence to equilibrium for solutions under the critical mass.

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