Global Existence of Non-cutoff Boltzmann Equation in Weighted Sobolev Space

Abstract

This article presents a new approach of semigroup analysis and pseudo-differential calculus for deriving the regularizing estimate on non-cutoff linearized Boltzmann equation. We are able to obtain regularizing estimate of semigroup $e^{tB}$ that is continuous from weighted Sobolev space $H(a^{-1/2})H^m_x$ to $H(a^{1/2})H^m_x$ with a sharp large time decay. With these properties, we prove the existence of global-in-time unique solution to the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation for hard potential on the whole space with weak regularity assumption on initial data. We consider the hard potential case since $H(a^{1/2})$ can be embedded in $L^2$. This work develops the application of pseudo-differential calculus, spectrum analysis and semigroup theory to non-cutoff Boltzmann equation.