Blow-up rate estimates for the solutions of the bosonic Boltzmann-Nordheim equation

Abstract

In this paper we study the behavior of a class of mild solutions of the homogeneous and isotropic bosonic Boltzmann-Nordheim equation near the blow-up. We obtain some estimates on the blow-up rate of the solutions and prove that, as long as a solution is bounded above by the critical singularity 1/x (the equilibrium solutions behave like this power law near the origin), it remains bounded in the uniform norm. In the last section of the paper, we also prove a local existence result for a class of measure-valued mild solutions, which allows us to solve the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation for some classes of unbounded densities.