Integrability propagation for a Boltzmann system describing polyatomic gas mixtures

Abstract

This paper explores the $L^{p}$ Lebesgue's integrability propagation, $p\in(1,\infty]$, of a system of space homogeneous Boltzmann equations modelling a multi-component mixture of polyatomic gases based on the continuous internal energy. For typical collision kernels proposed in the literature, $L^p$ moment-entropy-based estimates for the collision operator gain part and a lower bound for the loss part are performed leading to a vector valued inequality for the collision operator and, consequently, to a differential inequality for the vector valued solutions of the system. This allows to prove the propagation property of the polynomially weighted $L^p$ norms associated to the vector valued solution of the system of Boltzmann equations. The case $p=\infty$ is found as a limit of the case $p<\infty$.