Stability of background perturbation for Boltzmann equation

Abstract

Consider the Boltzmann equation in the perturbation regime. Since the macroscopic quantities in the background global Maxwellian are obtained through measurements, there are typically some errors involved. This paper investigates the effect of background variations on the solution for a given initial perturbation. Our findings demonstrate that the solution changes continuously with variations in the background and provide a sharp time decay estimate of the associated errors. The proof relies on refined estimates for the linearized solution operator and a proper decomposition of the nonlinear solution.