The Multifractal Nature of Boltzmann Processes

Abstract

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for (true) hard and moderately soft potentials. We study the pathwise properties of the stochastic process $(V_t)_{t\geq 0}$, which describes the time evolution of the velocity of a typical particle. We show that this process is almost surely multifractal and we compute its spectrum of singularities. For hard potentials, we also compute the multifractal spectrum of the position process $(X_t)_{t\ge0}$.