Estimates for the large time behavior of the Landau equation in the Coulomb case

TL;DR

This paper studies the long-time behavior of the Landau equation with Coulomb potential, establishing entropy dissipation bounds, moment propagation, and explicit convergence rates to equilibrium.

Contribution

It introduces new bounds linking entropy dissipation to Fisher information and proves moment propagation, leading to explicit convergence rates for solutions.

Findings

Entropy dissipation bounds via Fisher information

Propagation of polynomial and stretched exponential moments

Explicit algebraic and stretched exponential convergence rates

Abstract

This work deals with the large time behaviour of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with Coulomb potential. Firstly, we obtain a bound from below of the entropy dissipation $D(f)$ by a weighted relative Fisher information of $f$ with respect to the associated Maxwellian distribution, which leads to a variant of Cercignani's conjecture thanks to a logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Secondly, we prove the propagation of polynomial and stretched exponential moments with an at most linearly growing in time rate. As an application of these estimates, we show the convergence of any ($H$- or weak) solution to the Landau equation with Coulomb potential to the associated Maxwellian equilibrium with an explicitly computable rate, assuming initial data with finite mass, energy, entropy and some higher $L^1$-moment. More precisely, if the initial data have some (large enough) polynomial $L^1$-moment, then we obtain an algebraic decay. If the initial data have a stretched exponential $L^1$-moment, then we recover a stretched exponential decay.