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Niccolò Tassi

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Self-similarity and diffusive limits for linear kinetic equations: a Wild sum approach

We prove that linear collisional kinetic equations in the whole space without confinement mechanism display a long-time self-similar behaviour. This drastically improves the recently known results (decay estimates) about the solutions in such a context, providing the first result regarding this self-similar behaviour. As a consequence, we also establish a uniform-in-time convergence of the suitably rescaled solutions to their diffusion limit, which is also new. The class of equations considered includes some BGK type equations, some kinetic nonlocal Fokker--Planck-type equations and some kinetic (possibly fractional) Fokker--Planck equations, for which we are able to write explicitly solutions through a Wild sum (or Dyson series) or we can manage some accurate computations on the Fourier side.

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Time Asymptotics and Scaling Limits for a Nonlocal Fokker-Planck Equation with Heavy-Tailed Kernel

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a class of nonlocal Fokker--Planck equations defined by nonsingular, heavy-tailed convolution kernels and characterised by a scaling parameter $\e\in(0,1]$ and a fractional index $s\in(1/2,1)$. By employing a suitable version of the generalised central limit for heavy-tailed distributions and the use of Harris's theorem, we prove exponential convergence to the equilibrium with a rate that is independent of both $\e$ and $s$. This allows us to show uniform--in--time convergence for both $\e\to 0$ and $s\to1$ recovering the limiting equations.

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A uniform-in-time nonlocal approximation of the standard Fokker-Planck equation

We study a nonlocal approximation of the Fokker-Planck equation in which we can estimate the speed of convergence to equilibrium in a way which does not degenerate as we approach the local limit of the equation. This uniform estimate cannot be easily obtained with standard inequalities or entropy methods, but can be obtained through the use of Harris's theorem, finding interesting links to quantitative versions of the central limit theorem in probability. As a consequence one can prove that solutions of this nonlocal approximation converge to solutions of the usual Fokker-Planck equation uniformly in time-hence we show the approximation is asymptotic-preserving in this sense. The associated equilibrium has some interesting tail and regularity properties, which we also study.

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