Gas Dynamics and Kinetic TheoryNumerical methods in inverse problemsThermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena

Renjun Duan, Zongguang Li

2026.5.26Pure and Applied Analysis

DOI: 10.2140/paa.2026.8.385

Abstract

This paper aims to incorporate the Caflisch's decomposition into the macro-micro decomposition in Boltzmann theory for allowing the microscopic component to exhibit only the polynomial tail in large velocities. In particular, we treat the Cauchy problem on the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation under the compressible Euler scaling in case of three-dimensional whole space. Up to a finite time we construct the Boltzmann solution around a local Maxwellian corresponding to small-amplitude classical solutions of the full compressible Euler system around constant states. We design a new energy functional which can capture the convergence rate in the small Knudsen number $\varepsilon$ and allow the microscopic part of solutions to decay polynomially in large velocities. Moreover, the energy norm of perturbations can be of the order $\varepsilon^{1/2}$ which the usual method of Hilbert expansion fails to obtain. As a byproduct of the proof, our estimates immediately yield a global-in-time existence result when the Euler solutions are taken to be constant states.

Citation format

DUAN, Renjun; LI, Zongguang. Polynomial tail solutions of the non-cutoff boltzmann equation near local maxwellians. Pure and Applied Analysis, 2026, 8(2): 385–457.