Well-posedness of a 2D gyrokinetic model with equal Debye length and Larmor radius

Abstract

We study here a 2D gyrokinetic model obtained in [Bostan-Finot-Hauray,CRAS,2016], which naturally appears as the limit of a Vlasov-Poisson system with a very large external uniform magnetic field in the finite Larmor radius regime, when the typical Larmor radius is of order of the Debye length. We show that the Cauchy problem for that system is well-posed in a suitable space, provided that the initial condition satisfies a standard uniform decay assumption in velocity. Our result relies on a stability estimate in Wasserstein distance of order one between two solutions of the system. That stability estimate directly implies the uniqueness (in an appropriate space) of solution to the Cauchy problem. An extension of the stability estimate to the case of a regularized interaction allows to prove the existence of solutions, as limits of solutions of a similar system with regularized interactions.