Landau damping: paraproducts and Gevrey regularity

Abstract

We give a new, simpler, proof of nonlinear Landau damping on T^d in Gevrey-1/s regularity (s > 1/3) which matches the regularity requirement predicted by the formal analysis of Mouhot and Villani in the original proof of Landau damping [Acta Mathematica 2011]. Our proof combines in a novel way ideas from the original proof of Landau damping and the proof of inviscid damping in 2D Euler [arXiv:1306.5028]. As in the work on 2D Euler, we use paraproduct decompositions and controlled regularity loss to replace the Newton iteration scheme employed in the original proof. We perform time-response estimates adapted from the original proof to control the plasma echoes and couple them to energy estimates on the distribution function in the style of the work on 2D Euler.