We revisit the proof of Landau damping near stable homogenous equilibria of Vlasov-Poisson systems with screened interactions in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ (for $d\geq3$) that was first established by Bedrossian, Masmoudi and Mouhot. Our proof follows a Lagrangian approach and relies on precise pointwise in time dispersive estimates in the physical space for the linearized problem that should be of independent interest. This allows to cut down the smoothness of the initial data required in Bedrossian at al. (roughly, we only need Lipschitz regularity). Moreover, the time decay estimates we prove are essentially sharp, being the same as those for free transport, up to a logarithmic correction.
Nonlinear Landau damping for the two-species screened Vlasov-Poisson system with large initial distributions
State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences and Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院应用数学研究所）；School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学数学科学学院）；Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan Textile University（武汉纺织大学数学与统计学院非线性科学研究中心）；School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University & National Center for Applied Mathematics in Hunan（湘潭大学数学与计算科学学院 & 湖南应用数学中心）；Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, CAS（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院应用数学研究所）
In this paper, we study the asymptotic stability of Penrose-stable equilibria among solutions of the screened Vlasov-Poisson system in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d\geq 3$ that was first established by Bedrossian, Masmoudi, and Mouhot in \cite{JBedrossian2018} with smooth initial data. More precisely, we prove the sharp decay estimates for the density of the perturbed system, exactly like the free transport with only Hölder (i.e., $C^{a}$ for $0<a<1$) perturbed initial data. This improves the recent works in \cite{HanKwanD2021} by Han-Kwan, Nguyen, and Rousset for lower derivatives of the density and…
The pointwise space-time behaviors of the Green's function and the global solution to the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) system in spatial three dimension are studied in this paper. It is shown that the Green's function consists of the diffusion waves decaying exponentially in time but algebraically in space, and the singular kinetic waves which become smooth for all $(t,x,v)$ when $t>0.$ Furthermore, we establish the pointwise space-time behaviors of the global solution to the nonlinear VPFP system when the initial data is not necessarily smooth in terms of the Green's function.
Green's Function and Pointwise Space-time Behaviors of the three-Dimensional modified Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System
School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Guangxi University（广西大学数学与信息科学学院）；Center for Applied Mathematical of Guangxi (Guangxi University)（广西应用数学中心（广西大学））
The pointwise space-time behaviors of the Green's function and the global solution to the modified Vlasov- Poisson-Boltzmann (mVPB) system in one-dimensional space are studied in this paper. It is shown that, the Green's function admits the diffusion wave, the Huygens's type sound wave, the singular kinetic wave and the remainder term decaying exponentially in space-time. These behaviors are similar to the Boltzmann equation (Liu and Yu in Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57: 1543-1608, 2004). Furthermore, we establish the pointwise space-time nonlinear diffusive behaviors of the global solution to the …
In this paper, we establish derivative estimates for the Vlasov-Poisson system with screening interactions around Penrose-stable equilibria on the phase space $\mathbb{R}^d_x\times \mathbb{R}_v^d$, with dimension $d\ge 3$. In particular, we establish the optimal decay estimates for higher derivatives of the density of the perturbed system, precisely like the free transport, up to a log correction in time. This extends the recent work \cite{T-R-HK} by Han-Kwan, Nguyen and Rousset to higher derivatives of the density. The proof makes use of several key observations from \cite{T-R-HK} on the stru…
We study the asymptotic properties of the small data solutions of the Vlasov-Maxwell system in dimension three. No neutral hypothesis nor compact support assumptions are made on the data. In particular, the initial decay in the velocity variable is optimal. We use vector field methods to obtain sharp pointwise decay estimates in null directions on the electromagnetic field and its derivatives. For the Vlasov field and its derivatives, we obtain optimal pointwise decay estimates by a vector field method where the commutators are modification of those of the free relativistic transport equation.…
We prove a local existence and uniqueness result for the non-relativistic and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system for data which need not even be continuous. The corresponding solutions preserve all the standard conserved quantities and are constant along their pointwise defined characteristic flow so that these solutions are suitable for the stability analysis of not necessarily smooth steady states. They satisfy the well-known continuation criterion and are global in the non-relativistic case. The only unwanted requirement on the data is that they be spherically symmetric.
We prove that the Debye screening length emerges in a spatially homogeneous plasma described by the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson equation interacting with a point charge. While screened stationary states as well as the time-dependent problem are well-studied for the linearized equation, there are few rigorous results on screening in the nonlinear setting. As such, the results presented here cover the stationary case under the assumptions predicted by the linearized theory.
We prove the global asymptotic stability of the Minkowski space for the massless Einstein-Vlasov system in wave coordinates. In contrast with previous work on the subject, no compact support assumptions on the initial data of the Vlasov field in space or the momentum variables are required. In fact, the initial decay in $v$ is optimal. The present proof is based on vector field and weighted vector field techniques for Vlasov fields, as developed in previous work of Fajman, Joudioux, and Smulevici, and heavily relies on several structural properties of the massless Vlasov equation, similar to t…
We prove Landau damping for the collisionless Vlasov equation with a class of $L^1$ interaction potentials (including the physical case of screened Coulomb interactions) on $\mathbb R^3_x \times \mathbb R^3_v$ for localized disturbances of an infinite, homogeneous background. Unlike the confined case $\mathbb T^3_x \times \mathbb R_v^3$, results are obtained for initial data in Sobolev spaces (as well as Gevrey and analytic classes). For spatial frequencies bounded away from zero, the Landau damping of the density is similar to the confined case. The finite regularity is possible due to an add…
We prove the pointwise decay of solutions to three linear equations: (i) the transport equation in phase space generalizing the classical Vlasov equation, (ii) the linear Schrodinger equation, (iii) the Airy (linear KdV) equation. The usual proofs use explicit representation formulae, and either obtain $L^1$---$L^\infty$ decay through directly estimating the fundamental solution in physical space, or by studying oscillatory integrals coming from the representation in Fourier space. Our proof instead combines "vector field" commutators that capture the inherent symmetries of the relevant equati…
The Nordström-Vlasov system provides an interesting relativistic generalization of the Vlasov-Poisson system in the gravitational case, even though there is no direct physical application. The study of this model will probably lead to a better mathematical understanding of the class of non-linear systems consisting of hyperbolic and transport equations. In this paper it is shown that solutions of the Nordström-Vlasov system converge to solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system in a pointwise sense as the speed of light tends to infinity, providing a further and rigorous justification of this mode…
In this paper we study the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation for localized disturbances of an infinite, homogeneous Maxwellian background distribution in $\mathbb R^3_x \times \mathbb R^3_v$. In contrast with the confined case $\mathbb T^d _x \times \mathbb R_v ^d$, or the unconfined case $\mathbb R^d_x \times \mathbb R^d_v$ with screening, the dynamics of the disturbance are not scattering towards free transport as $t \to \pm \infty$: we show that the electric field decomposes into a very weakly-damped Klein-Gordon-type evolution for long waves and a Landau-damped evolution. The Klein-Gordon…
Consider the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system with Coulomb potential in the weakly collisional regime on a $3$-torus, i.e. $$\begin{aligned} \partial_t F(t,x,v) + v_i \partial_{x_i} F(t,x,v) + E_i(t,x) \partial_{v_i} F(t,x,v) = νQ(F,F)(t,x,v),\\ E(t,x) = \nabla Δ^{-1} (\int_{\mathbb R^3} F(t,x,v)\, \mathrm{d} v - \frac{1}{(2π)^3}\int_{\mathbb T^3} \int_{\mathbb R^3} F(t,x,v)\, \mathrm{d} v \, \mathrm{d} x), \end{aligned}$$ with $ν\ll 1$. We prove that for $ε>0$ sufficiently small (but independent of $ν$), initial data which are $O(εν^{1/3})$-Sobolev space perturbations from the global Maxwellians …
Asymptotic stability of Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) waves, Landau Damping, and scattering theory
Departamento de Física Matemática（数学物理系）；Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas（应用数学与系统研究所）；Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México（墨西哥国立自治大学）
In this paper, we give an elementary proof of the nonlinear Landau damping for the Vlasov-Poisson system near Penrose stable equilibria on the torus $\mathbb{T}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$ that was first obtained by Mouhot and Villani in \cite{MV} for analytic data and subsequently extended by Bedrossian, Masmoudi, and Mouhot \cite{BMM} for Gevrey-$γ$ data, $γ\in(\frac13,1]$. Our proof relies on simple pointwise resolvent estimates and a standard nonlinear bootstrap analysis, using an ad-hoc family of analytic and Gevrey-$γ$ norms.
