Landau damping for analytic and Gevrey data

Abstract

In this paper, we give an elementary proof of the nonlinear Landau damping for the Vlasov-Poisson system near Penrose stable equilibria on the torus $\mathbb{T}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$ that was first obtained by Mouhot and Villani in \cite{MV} for analytic data and subsequently extended by Bedrossian, Masmoudi, and Mouhot \cite{BMM} for Gevrey-$\gamma$ data, $\gamma\in(\frac13,1]$. Our proof relies on simple pointwise resolvent estimates and a standard nonlinear bootstrap analysis, using an ad-hoc family of analytic and Gevrey-$\gamma$ norms.