Global existence of solutions of the Boltzmann equation for Bose-Einstein particles with anisotropic initial data

Abstract

In this paper we prove the global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Bose-Einstein particles for the hard sphere model for bounded anisotropic initial data. The main idea of our proof is as follows: we first establish an intermediate equation which is closely related to the original equation and is relatively easily proven to have global in time and unique solutions, then we use the multi-step iterations of the collision gain operator to obtain a desired uniform L1-bound for the solution of the intermediate equation so that it becomes the solution of the original equation.