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

TL;DR

This paper proves the well-posedness of a 2D gyrokinetic model derived from a Vlasov-Poisson system under a strong magnetic field, establishing existence and uniqueness of solutions using Wasserstein stability estimates.

Contribution

It introduces a rigorous well-posedness framework for the gyrokinetic model with equal Debye length and Larmor radius, including stability, uniqueness, and existence results.

Findings

Well-posedness of the 2D gyrokinetic model established

Stability estimate in Wasserstein distance proved

Existence of solutions shown via regularized interactions

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.