Weak Solutions to the Collision-Induced Breakage Equation with Dominating Coagulation

Abstract

Existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the collision-induced breakage and coag-ulation equation are shown when coagulation is the dominant mechanism for small volumes. The collision kernel may feature a stronger singularity for small volumes than the ones considered in previous contributions. In addition, when the collision kernel is locally bounded, the class of fragment daughter distribution functions included in the analysis is broader. Mass-conserving solutions are also constructed when the collision kernel grows at most linearly at infinity and are proved to be unique for initial conditions decaying sufficiently fast at infinity. The existence proofs relies on a weak compactness approach in L 1 .