Abstract
The global in time classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system near Maxwellians are obtained under the lower regularity index assumption and the weaker smallness condition on the initial perturbation in comparison with the work (Duan et al. in Kinet Relat Models 6(1):159–204, 2013). In particular, we show the relation between time decay rates and spatial derivatives of solutions.Our analysis relies on a refined energy estimates and the interpolation techniques between negative Sobolev norms and positive Sobolev norms without linear decay analysis.
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1 Introduction and Main Results
This paper concerns the existence and time decay rates of global in time classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system (called VMB for simplicity) near Maxwellians, which takes the form:
with prescribed initial data
which satisfy the compatibility conditions
Here the unknown functions \(F_\pm = F_\pm (t,x, v) \ge 0\) are the number density functions for the ions (\(+\)) and electrons (\(-\)) with position \(x = (x_1, x_2, x_3)\in {\mathbb {R}}^3\), velocity \( v=( v_1, v_2, v_3) \in {\mathbb {R}}^3\) at time \(t\ge 0\), respectively. E(t, x) and B(t, x) denote the electro and magnetic fields, respectively. The Boltzmann collision operator Q is given by
where in terms of velocities u and v before the collision, velocities \(v'\) and \(u'\) after the collision are defined by
The Boltzmann collision kernel \({\mathbf B}(v-u,\sigma )\) depends only on the relative velocity \(|v-u|\) and on the deviation angle \(\theta \) given by \(\cos \theta =\langle \sigma ,\ (v-u)/{|v-u|}\rangle \), where \(\langle \cdot , \cdot \rangle \) is the usual dot product in \(\mathbb {R}^3\). As in [1–3, 7], we suppose that \({\mathbf B}(v-u,\sigma )\) is supported on \(\cos \theta \ge 0\). Notice also that all the physical parameters have been chosen to be unit for simplicity of presentation.
Throughout the paper, the collision kernel is further supposed to satisfy the following assumptions:
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(A1).
\({\mathbf B}(v-u,\sigma )\) takes the product form in its argument as
$$\begin{aligned} {\mathbf B}(v-u,\sigma )=\Phi (|v-u|){\mathbf b}(\cos \theta ) \end{aligned}$$with \(\Phi \) and \({\mathbf b}\) being non-negative functions;
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(A2).
The angular function \(\sigma \rightarrow {\mathbf b}(\langle \sigma ,(v-u)/|v-u|\rangle )\) is not integrable on \({\mathbb {S}}^2\), i.e.
$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^2}{\mathbf b}(\cos \theta )d\sigma =2\pi \int _0^{\pi /2}\sin \theta {\mathbf b}(\cos \theta )d\theta =\infty . \end{aligned}$$Moreover, there are two positive constants \(c_b>0, 0<s<1\) such that
$$\begin{aligned} \frac{c_b}{\theta ^{1+2s}}\le \sin \theta {\mathbf b}(\cos \theta )\le \frac{1}{c_b\theta ^{1+2s}}; \end{aligned}$$ -
(A3).
The kinetic function \(z\rightarrow \Phi (|z|)\) satisfies
$$\begin{aligned} \Phi (|z|)=C_\Phi |z|^\gamma \end{aligned}$$for some positive constant \(C_\Phi > 0.\) Here we should notice that the exponent \(\gamma >-3\) is determined by the intermolecular interactive mechanism.
It is convenient to call hard potentials when \(\gamma +2s\ge 0\) and soft potentials when \(-3<\gamma <-2s\) with \(0<s<1\). Interested readers may refer to the textbooks [12, 14, 20] for more details. The current work is restricted to the case of
Our goal of the paper is to study the Cauchy problem (1.1) around the following normalized global Maxwellian \( \mu =\mu (v)=(2\pi )^{-{3}/{2}}e^{-| v |^2/2}. \) For this purpose, we define the perturbation \(f_\pm =f_\pm (t,x, v)\) by \( F_\pm (t, x, v ) = \mu + \mu ^{1/2}f_\pm (t, x, v). \) Then, the VMB system (1.1) is reformulated as
with initial data
which satisfy the compatibility conditions
If we denote \(f=\left[ f_+,f_-\right] \), then (1.4)_1 can be written as
where \(q_0=diag(1,-1)\), \(q_1=[1,-1]\), the linearized collision operator L and the nonlinear collision term \(\Gamma (f,f)\) are respectively defined by
with
For the linearized Boltzmann collision operator L, it is well known [9] that it is non-negative and the null space of L is given by
If we define \({\mathbf P}\) as the orthogonal projection from \(L^2({\mathbb {R}}^3_ v)\times L^2({\mathbb {R}}^3_ v)\) to \(\mathcal {N}\), then for any given function \(f(t, x, v )\in L^2({\mathbb {R}}^3_ v)\), one has
with
Therefore, we have the following macro-micro decomposition with respect to a given global Maxwellian which was introduced in [8, 10, 16]
where \(\mathbf{I}\) denotes the identity operator.
Before stating our main results, we first introduce some notations used throughout the paper. C denotes some positive constant (generally large) and \(\kappa ,~\lambda \) denotes some positive constant (generally small), where C, \(\kappa \) and \(\lambda \) may take different values in different places. \(A\lesssim B\) means that there is a generic constant \(C> 0\) such that \(A \le CB\). \(A \sim B\) means \(A\lesssim B\) and \(B\lesssim A\). The multi-indices \( \alpha = [\alpha _1,\alpha _2, \alpha _3]\) and \(\beta = [\beta _1, \beta _2, \beta _3]\) will be used to record spatial and velocity derivatives, respectively. And \(\partial ^{\alpha }_{\beta }=\partial ^{\alpha _1}_{x_1}\partial ^{\alpha _2}_{x_2}\partial ^{\alpha _3}_{x_3} \partial ^{\beta _1}_{ v_1}\partial ^{\beta _2}_{ v_2}\partial ^{\beta _3}_{ v_3}\). Similarly, the notation \(\partial ^{\alpha }\) will be used when \(\beta =0\) and likewise for \(\partial _{\beta }\). The length of \(\alpha \) is denoted by \(|\alpha |=\alpha _1 +\alpha _2 +\alpha _3\). \(\alpha '\le \alpha \) means that no component of \(\alpha '\) is greater than the corresponding component of \(\alpha \), and \(\alpha '<\alpha \) means that \(\alpha '\le \alpha \) and \(|\alpha '|<|\alpha |\). And it is convenient to write \(\nabla _x^k=\partial ^{\alpha }\) with \(|\alpha |=k\). We also use \(\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle \) to denotes the \({L^2_{ v}}\) inner product in \({\mathbb { R}}^3_{ v}\), with the \({L^2}\) norm \(|\cdot |_{L^2}\). For notational simplicity, \((\cdot , \cdot )\) denotes the \({L^2}\) inner product either in \({\mathbb { R}}^3_{x}\times {\mathbb { R}}^3_{ v }\) or in \({\mathbb { R}}^3_{x}\) with the \({L^2_{ v }}\) norm \(\Vert \cdot \Vert \). \(B_C \subset \mathbb {R}^3\) denotes the ball of radius C centered at the origin, and \(L^2 (B_C)\) stands for the space \(L^2\) over \(B_C\) and likewise for other spaces.
As in [11], we introduce the operator \(\Lambda ^s\) with \(s\in \mathbb {R}\) by
with \(\hat{g}(t,\xi ,v)\equiv \mathcal {F}[g](t,\xi ,v)\) being the Fourier transform of g(t, x, v) with respect to x. The homogeneous Sobolev space \(\dot{H}^s\) is the Banach space consisting of all g satisfying \(\Vert g\Vert _{\dot{H}}<+\infty \), where
We now list series of notations introduced in [3]. Introduce
For \(l\in \mathbb {R}\) , \(\langle v\rangle =\sqrt{1+| v|^2}\), \(L_l^2\) denotes the weighted space with norm \( |f|_{L^2_{l}}^2\equiv \int _{\mathbb {R}^3_v}|f(v)|^2\langle v\rangle ^{2l}dv. \) The weighted frictional Sobolev norm \(|f(v)|_{H^s_l}^2=|\langle v\rangle ^lf(v)|_{H^s}^2\) is given by
where \(\chi _{\Omega }\) is the standard indicator function of the set \(\Omega \). Moreover, in \(\mathbb {R}^3_x\times \mathbb {R}^3_v\), \(\Vert \cdot \Vert _{H^s_\gamma }=\Vert |\cdot |_{H^s_\gamma }\Vert _{L^2_x}\) is used.
As in [5], we introduce the time-velocity weight function corresponding to the Boltzmann operator:
with the parameter \(\vartheta \) being taken as
Moreover, for an integer \(N\ge 0\) and \(\ell \in \mathbb {R}\), we define the energy functional \(\mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N,\ell }(t)\) and the corresponding dissipation rate functional \(\mathcal {\bar{D}}_{N,\ell }(t)\) by
and
respectively. Here
In our analysis, we also need to define the energy functional without weight \(\mathcal {E}_{N}(t)\), the higher order energy functional without weight \(\mathcal {E}_{N_0}^{k}(t)\), and the higher order energy functional with weight \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,\ell }(t)\) as follows
and the corresponding energy dissipation rate functionals are given by
respectively.
With the above preparation in hand, our main result concerning the Cauchy problem (1.4), (1.5) is
Theorem 1.1
Suppose that \(F_0(x,v)=\mu +\sqrt{\mu }f_0(x,v)\ge 0\), \(\frac{1}{2}< \varrho <\frac{3}{2}\), and \(\max \left\{ -3,-\frac{3}{2}-2s\right\} <\gamma <-2s\) with \( \frac{1}{2}\le s<1\). Let
and take \(l\ge N\) and \(l_0\ge \max \{l, l+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1-s}{\gamma }-N_0\}\). If
is sufficiently small where \(l^*=l'+\frac{3(\gamma +2s)}{2\gamma }\) and \(l'\) will be specified in the proof for detail, the Cauchy problem (1.4), (1.5) admits a unique global solution (f(t, x, v), E(t, x), B(t, x)) satisfying \(F(t,x,v)=\mu +\sqrt{\mu }f(t,x,v)\ge 0\).
Remark 1.2
Several remarks concerning Theorem 1.1 are listed below:
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For brevity, the precise value of the parameter \(l'\) can be specified in the proofs of Theorem 1.1, cf. the proof of Lemma 4.1.
Our second result is concerned with the temporal decay estimates on the global solution (f(t, x, v), E(t, x), B(t, x)) obtained in Theorem 1.1. For results in this direction, we have from Theorem 1.1 that
Theorem 1.3
Under the assumptions of Theorem 1.1, we have the following results:
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(1)
Taking \(k=0,1,2,\ldots , N_0-2\), it follows that
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {E}^k_{N_0}(t)\lesssim Y^2_0(1+t)^{-(\varrho +k)}. \end{aligned}$$(1.23) -
(2)
Let \(0\le i\le k\le N_0-3\) be an integer, if we take \(l^*\) in Theorem 1.1 as \(l^*=l'+\frac{3(\gamma +2s)}{2\gamma }+\chi _{N_0\ge 4}\left( 1-\frac{2s-1}{\gamma }\right) \left( N_0-4\right) \) and if we set \(l_{0,0}=l_{0,1}=l_0\), \(l_{0,k}+1+\frac{2s-1}{\gamma }= l_{0,k-1}\) and \(l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+2)}{2}\ge N_0\) for \(2\le k\le N_0-3\), one has
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,l_{0,k}+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2\gamma }i}(t) \lesssim Y^2_0(1+t)^{-k-\varrho +i}, \quad \quad i=0,1,\ldots ,k. \end{aligned}$$(1.24)furthermore, when \(\varrho \in [1,\frac{3}{2})\),
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+1)}{2\gamma }}(t) \lesssim Y^2_0(1+t)^{1-\varrho }.\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \end{aligned}$$(1.25) -
(3)
When \(N_0+1\le |\alpha |\le N-1\), we have
$$\begin{aligned} \Vert \partial ^\alpha f\Vert ^2 \lesssim Y^2_0(1+t)^{-\frac{(N-|\alpha |)(N_0-2+\varrho )}{N-N_0}}, \end{aligned}$$(1.26)
Remark 1.4
In fact, compared with the results in [5], the main results obtained in this manuscript show that:
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The smallness of \(\Vert w_\ell f_0\Vert _{Z^1}\) and \(\Vert (E_0,B_0)\Vert _{L^1}\) can be replaced by the weaker assumption that \(\Vert (E_0,B_0)\Vert ^2_{\dot{H}^{-s}}+\Vert f_0\Vert ^2_{\dot{H}^{-s}}\) \((\frac{1}{2}<s<\frac{3}{2})\) is small.
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The minimal regularity index 14 is reduced into \(N=7\) for \(s\in (\frac{1}{2},1]\) and \(N=6\) for \(s\in (1,\frac{3}{2})\).
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The restriction on \(\vartheta =\frac{1}{4}\) is relaxed to \( 0<\vartheta \le \frac{\varrho }{2}-\frac{1}{4}\), \( \varrho \in (\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{2})\) for \(N_0\ge 4\) and \( 0<\vartheta \le \frac{\varrho }{2}-\frac{1}{2}, \varrho \in (1,\frac{3}{2})\) for \(N_0=3 \).
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The time decay rates of the higher-order spatial derivatives of solutions are obtained.
Let’s review some former results on the construction of global smooth solutions to the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system (1.1) near Maxwellians. Guo in [9] firstly constructed periodic classical solutions near Maxwellian for the (non-relativistic) two-species Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system for hard sphere, which was extended to the whole space \(\mathbb {R}^3_x\) by Strain in [18]. The large-time behavior of classical solutions to the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system for hard sphere in the whole space was studied by Duan-Strain [6]. Recently, Duan-Liu-Yang-Zhao in [5] deal with the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system for non-cutoff soft potentials in the whole space \(\mathbb {R}^3_x\).
As pointed out in [5], to overcome the mathematical difficulties, which are produced by the velocity-growth of the nonlinear term with the velocity-growth rate |v| and the regularity-loss of the electromagnetic field, the main arguments used in [5] are as follows:
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They introduce the exponential time-velocity weight \(w_\ell (t,v)\) to generate the extra dissipation corresponding to the last term in the energy dissipation rate functional \(\mathcal {\bar{D}}_{N,l}(t)\);
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Motivated by the argument developed in [13] to deduce the decay property of solutions to nonlinear equations of regularity-loss type, a time-weighted energy estimate is designed to close the analysis, which implies that although the \(L^2\)-norm of terms with the highest order derivative with respect to x of the solutions of the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltamann system may can only be bounded by some function of t which increases as time evolves, the \(L^2\)-norm of terms with lower order derivatives with respect to x still enjoy some decay rates.
Based on the above arguments and combining the decay of solutions to the corresponding linearized system with the Duhamel principle, Duan–Liu–Yang–Zhao [5] can indeed close the analysis provided that the regularity index imposed on the initial perturbation is 14, i.e. \(N\ge 14\) and certain norms of the initial perturbation, especially \(\Vert w_\ell f_0\Vert _{Z^1}\) and \(\Vert (E_0,B_0)\Vert _{L^1}\), are assumed to be sufficiently small, meanwhile the choice of \(\vartheta =\frac{1}{4}\) is critical in their proof.
Inspired by the work [11], the main purpose of our present manuscript is trying to study such a problem by a different method, which does not rely on the decay analysis of the corresponding linearized system and the Duhamel principle.
Now we sketch the main ideas to deduce our main results:
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As in [5], we apply the exponential time-velocity weight \(w_\ell (t,v)\), which can deduce the extra dissipation \((1+t)^{-1-\vartheta }\Vert \langle v\rangle ^{\frac{1}{2}} w_\ell (\alpha ,\beta )\partial ^\alpha _\beta \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert ^2\), to control the term \(\Vert E\Vert _{L^\infty }\Vert \langle v\rangle ^{\frac{1}{2}} w_\ell (\alpha ,\beta )\partial ^\alpha _\beta \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert ^2\). The key point of the above argument rests with the fact that the time decay rates of \(\Vert E\Vert _{L^\infty }\) is greater than \(1+\vartheta \). Unlike the techniques to obtain the time decay of \(\Vert E\Vert _{L^\infty }\) in [5], which heavily rely on linear analysis and Duhamel principle, to deduce such a result, we hope that the following estimates
(1.27)and
(1.28)hold for \(0\le t<T\).
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In the proof of (1.27), the terms like \((\nabla ^k(v\cdot E {\mathbf P}f),\nabla ^k f)\) and \((\nabla ^k(v\times B\cdot \nabla _v {\mathbf P}f),\nabla ^k f)\) ask us to use the interpolation techniques between negative Sobolev norms i.e. \(\Vert \Lambda ^{-\varrho }(f,E,B)\Vert \) and positive Sobolev norms i.e. \(\Vert \nabla ^k\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert \) or \(\Vert \nabla ^{k+1}({\mathbf P}f, E,B)\Vert \), and when we deal with the terms such as \((\nabla ^k(v\times B \nabla _v \{\mathbf{I- P}\}f),\nabla ^k \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f)\), even we have to apply the interpolation techniques with respect to velocity derivatives. In a word, the terms including electric–magnetic field (E,B) directly cause us to use the above techniques, which is mainly different from what Guo in [11] used to get the estimates like (1.27) with respect to Boltzmann equation (1.28) can be obtained in a similar way.
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With the help of the interpolation techniques between negative or the higher order Sobolev norms and corresponding dissipation functions introduced by [11], we deduce from (1.27) and (1.28) the time decay of \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0}(t)\) and \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,\ell }(t)\). We notice that \(\Vert E\Vert _{L^\infty }\) can be dominated by \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0}(t)\) for \(k=0,1,2\). Therefore, combing the time decay rates of \(\Vert E\Vert _{L^\infty }\) and \(\mathcal {E}^1_{N_0,\ell }(t)\) with other energy estimates, we can then close the a priori assumption given in (3.1) and then the global solvability result follows immediately from the continuation argument. It is worth pointing out that (1.27) and (1.28) play an essential role in the proof of Theorem 1.1.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we list some basic lemmas for the later proof. Section 3 is devoted to deducing the desired energy estimates for the energy functionals and the proofs of Theorems 1.1 and 1.3 will be given in the end of Sect. 3. For brevity, the detail proofs of some lemmas in Sect. 3 will be given in the Appendix.
2 Preliminary
In this section, we will cite some fundamental results for later use. The first lemma is concerned with the estimates of the linear operator L.
Lemma 2.1
(ii) Let \(\ell \in \mathbb {R}\), \(\lambda \ge 0\), \(0<s<1\) and \(-3<\gamma <-2s\), it holds that
The second and third lemma concern the estimates on the nonlinear collision operator \(\Gamma \).
Lemma 2.2
(cf. [3, 5]) For all \(0<s<1\), \(\max \big \{-3,-\frac{3}{2}-2s\big \}<\gamma <-2s\), \(\lambda _0>0\) , \(\ell \ge 0\) and for some \(\bar{\lambda }>0\), then one has
where the summation \(\sum \) is taken over \(\alpha _1+\alpha _2\le \alpha \) and \(\beta _1+\beta _2\le \beta \). Furthermore, from [3],
Lemma 2.3
(cf. [19]) Let \(\ell >0\), \(\gamma >-3\) with \(\gamma +2s>-\frac{3}{2}\) and \(s\in [\frac{1}{2},1)\), it holds that
The following lemma concerns the trillion estimates on the nonlinear term \(\Gamma (f,f)\).
Lemma 2.4
For all \(\frac{1}{2}\le s<1\), \(\max \big \{-3,-\frac{3}{2}-2s\big \}<\gamma <-2s\), and assume \(\ell \ge N\), \(0<\vartheta \le \frac{1}{3}\), one has the following estimates:
and
Proof
For brevity, we only prove (4.3),
where we should notice the summation \(\sum \) is taken over \(\alpha _1+\alpha _2\le \alpha \). We only prove the last term on right hand of (2.10) since the estimates for the other terms on the right hand of (2.10) are more simple than the last term. Since \(\gamma \le -2s\) and \(1/2\le s<1\), we see that \(\gamma +2\le 1\). Therefore,
When \(\alpha _2=\alpha \) with \(|\alpha |\ge N_0+1\), we use \(L^2-L^\infty -L^2\),
When \(N_0+1\le |\alpha _2|\le |\alpha |-1 \) with \(|\alpha |\ge N_0+2\), we use \(L^3-L^6-L^2\),
Collecting the above estimates yields \( R_6\lesssim (1+t)^{\frac{1-3\vartheta }{2}}\{\mathcal {E}_{N_0,\ell -N_0+2}(t)\}^{1/2} \mathcal {D}_{N,\ell }(t)+\{\mathcal {E}_{N_0,N_0}(t)\}^{1/2}\mathcal {D}_{N,\ell }(t).\)
For other terms \(R_1\sim R_5\), noticing that \(0<\vartheta \le \frac{1}{3}\), we can obtain easily by the similar way as \(R_6\)
Collecting the above estimates gives (4.3) for the case \(N_0+1\le |\alpha |\le N\). While for the case \(|\alpha |\le N_0\), (4.3) can be obtained in a similar way. Thus we have completed the proof of this lemma. \(\square \)
In what follows, we will collect the analytic tools which will be used in this paper. The Sobolev interpolation among the spatial regularity is
Lemma 2.5
(cf. [21]) Let \(2\le p<\infty \) and \(k,\ell , m\in \mathbb {R}\); then we have
where \(0\le \theta \le 1\) and \(\ell \) satisfy
Also we have that
where \(0\le \theta \le 1\) and \(\ell \) satisfy
here we require \(\ell \le k+1\) and \(m\ge k+2\).
In this paper, we should estimate \(\Vert \Lambda ^{-\varrho }f\Vert \), we need the following \(L^p\) inequality for \(\Lambda ^{-\varrho }\).
Lemma 2.6
(cf. [11, 17]) Let \(0<\varrho <3\), \(1<p<q<\infty \), \(\frac{1}{q}+\frac{\varrho }{3}=\frac{1}{p}\), then
In many places, we will use Minkowski’s integral inequality to interchange the orders of integration over x and v.
Lemma 2.7
(cf. [21]) For \(1\le p\le q\le \infty \), we have
3 The Proofs of Our Main Results
This section is devoted to proving our main results based on the continuation argument. For this purpose, suppose that the Cauchy problem (1.4) and (1.5) admits a unique local solution f(t, x, v) defined on the time interval \( 0\le t\le T\) for some \(0<T<\infty \) and the solution f(t, x, v) satisfies the a priori assumption
where the parameters \(N_0,N,l, l_0,\) and \(l^*\) are given in Theorem 1.1 and M is a sufficiently small positive constant. Then use the continuation argument to extend such a solution step by step to a global one, one only need to deduce certain uniform-in-time energy type estimates on f(t, x, v) such that the a priori assumption (3.1) can be closed.
For this purpose, we first deduce the temporal decay of the energy functional \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0}(t)\) in the following lemma.
Lemma 3.1
Let \(N_0\) and N satisfy (1.21), \(n\ge \frac{2}{3} N_0-\frac{5}{3}\), and take \(k=0,1,2,\ldots , N_0-2\), then one has
provided that
Furthermore, as a consequence of (3.2), we can get that
holds for \(0\le t\le T\).
Proof
Under the smallness assumption \((H_1)\), one can deduce that
which is a immediately consequence of Lemma 4.1 and Lemma 4.2 whose proofs are postponed to the next section for simplicity, where we used the fact that \(\overline{m}\) of Lemma 4.1 is less or equal to \(N-1\).
To get (3.3), for the macroscopic component \({\mathbf P}f(t,x,v)\) and the electromagnetic field [E(t, x), B(t, x)] one has by Lemma 2.5 that
and
while for the microscopic component \(\{\mathbf{I}-\mathbf{P}\}f(t,x,v)\), employing the Hölder inequality gives
Thus, we have
which combing with (3.2) yields that
Solving the above inequality directly gives
This completes the proof of Lemma 3.1. \(\square \)
Lemma 3.2
Let \(\ell \ge N_0\), \(n\ge \frac{2}{3} N_0-\frac{5}{3}\) and suppose that
with \(\widetilde{l}\) being given in Lemma 3.1,
for any \(0\le t\le T\), where \(k=0,1,\ldots ,N_0-3\). Furthermore, based on (3.4), if we set \(l_{0,0}=l_{0,1}=\ell \), \(l_{0,k}+1+\frac{2s-1}{\gamma }= l_{0,k-1}\) and \(l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+2)}{2}\ge N_0\) for \(2\le k\le N_0-3\), we can deduce
while for \(\varrho \in [1,3/2)\),
Proof
Since the proof of (3.4) is nearly same to (3.2), we only point out the main difference between the proof of (3.4) and (3.2). For instance, when \(|\alpha |= N_0\), one has
which will be included on the right hand side of (3.4) for \(k\ge 2\).
For \(k=0,1\), multiplying (3.4) with \(\ell =l_0+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2\gamma }i\) by \((1+t)^{k+\varrho -i+\epsilon }\) gives
where \(\epsilon \) is taken as a sufficiently small positive constant. When \(\varrho \in (1/2,1)\), we take \(\ell =l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+1)}{2\gamma }\) in (3.4), it holds that
Using the relation between the energy functional \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,\ell }(t)\) and its dissipation rate \(\mathcal {D}^k_{N_0,\ell }(t)\), the proper linear combination of (3.8) and (3.9) yields
Lemma 3.1 tells us that
Plugging (3.11) into (3.10) and taking the time integration, it follows that
Using this, it follows that
When \(\varrho \in [1,3/2)\), multiplying (3.4) with \(\ell =l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+1)}{2\gamma }\) by \((1+t)^{\varrho -1+\epsilon }\) gives
we take \(\ell =l_{0,k}+\frac{(\gamma +2s)(k+2)}{2\gamma }\) in (3.4), it holds that
As in the case \(\varrho \in (\frac{1}{2},1)\), the proper linear combination of (3.8), (3.14) and (3.14) yields
By the same way as (3.5), it follows that
Combining (3.12) and (3.17) yields (3.5) and (3.6).
When \(k\ge 2\), we let \(l_{0,0}=l_{0,1}=\ell \), by using the principle of mathematical induction, we can get that
especially, when \(\varrho \in [1,3/2)\),
where \(l_{0,k}+1+\frac{2s-1}{\gamma }=l_{0,k-1}\). This completes the proof of Lemma 3.2. \(\square \)
Bases on the time decay estimates on \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0}(t)\) and \(\mathcal {E}^k_{N_0,\ell }(t)\), and suppose \(\displaystyle \max \left\{ \sup \nolimits _{0\le t\le T}\mathcal {E}_{N_0,N_0}(t),\sup \nolimits _{0\le t\le T}\mathcal {E}_{N}(t)\right\} \) is sufficiently small, we will have the following three lemmas for \(\mathcal {E}_{N}(t),\mathcal {E}_{N,l}(t),\mathcal {E}_{N-1,l}(t)\) and \(\mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0,l_0+l*}(t)\) respectively:
Lemma 3.3
Let \(N_0, N\) and \(\vartheta \) satisfy (1.21) and (1.10) respectively, under the assumptions of Lemma 3.1 and \(l\ge N\), \(l_0\ge N-N_0+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1-s}{\gamma }\), we can deduce that
holds for all \(0\le t\le T\).
Proof
First of all, it is straightforward to establish the energy identities
For the \(\partial ^\alpha \) derivative term related to (E, B) with \(N_0+1\le |\alpha |\le N\), i.e., the estimates on \(J_1\) and \(J_2\), one has
For \(J_2\), due to \(\left( (E+v\times B)\cdot \partial ^\alpha \nabla _vf,\partial ^\alpha f\right) =0,\) we can deduce by employing the same argument to deal with \(J_1\) that
Here we choose \(l_0\ge N-N_0+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1-s}{\gamma }\) and \(N\le 2N_0\). It follows from Lemma 2.2 that \( J_3\lesssim (\mathcal {E}_N(t)+\varepsilon )\mathcal {D}_N(t). \)
Plugging the estimates of \(J_1,\ J_2,\ J_3\) into (3.21) yields
which combining with (3.2) and (4.35) give the proof of (3.20) under the assumptions (1.10). \(\square \)
Lemma 3.4
Let \(N_0, N\) and \(\vartheta \) satisfy (1.21) and (1.10) respectively,, we can deduce that
holds for all \(0\le t\le T\).
Proof
The proof of this lemma is divided into two steps. The first step is to deduce the desired energy type estimates on the derivatives of f(t, x, v) with respect to the x-variable only. For this purpose, the standard energy estimate on \(\partial ^\alpha f\) with \(1\le |\alpha |\le N\) weighted by the time-velocity dependent function \(w_{l}(\alpha ,0)=w_l(\alpha ,0)(t,v)\) gives
As to the estimates on \(J_4\), \(J_5\), and \(J_6\), we can deduce by following exactly the argument used above to control \(J_1\), \(J_2\), and \(J_3\) that
and using Lemma 2.2 gives
Here we choose that \(l_0\ge l+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1-s}{\gamma }-N_0\) and \(N\le 2N_0\) in the estimates on the term \(J_4\) and \(J_5\) . Collecting the above estimates gives the desired weighted energy type estimates on the derivatives of f(t, x, v) with respect to the x-variables only as follows
Next, by applying the microscopic projection \(\{\mathbf{I-P}\}\) to the first equation of (1.4), we can get that
From (3.29) , one has the weighted energy estimate on \(\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\)
By the similar way, for the weighted energy estimate on \(\{\mathbf{I-P}\}\partial ^\alpha _\beta f\) with \(|\alpha |+|\beta |\le N\) and \(|\beta |\ge 1\), we have
Here we used the fact that \(\left( (v\times B)\cdot \partial ^\alpha _\beta \nabla _v \{\mathbf{I-P} \}f,w^2_{l-|\beta |}\partial _\beta ^\alpha \{\mathbf{I-P} \}f\right) =0.\) In addition, the estimate on the term \((\partial ^\alpha _\beta (v\cdot \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f),\partial ^\alpha _\beta \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f)\) can be seen [5], that is why we restrict \(\frac{1}{2}\le s\le 1\). The above other estimates are similar as (3.28), we omit it. Therefore, a proper linear combination of (4.35), (3.28), (3.30) and (3.31) implies (3.24). \(\square \)
Similar with Lemma 3.4, we also have
Lemma 3.5
It holds that
for all \(0\le t\le T\).
The following lemma is concerned with the weighted energy estimates on \(\mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0,\ell }(t)\).
Lemma 3.6
For any \(\ell \) with \(\ell =l_0+l^*\) with \(l^*=l'+\frac{3(\gamma +2s) }{2\gamma }+\chi _{N_0\ge 4}\left( \frac{1}{2}-\frac{1-s}{\gamma }\right) \left( N_0-4\right) \) with \(l'\) being given in Lemma 4.1, if the assumptions of Lemma 3.1 hold, we have
Furthermore,
Proof
From the completely same procedure to obtain the energy inequality (3.24) for \(\mathcal {E}_{N,l}(t)\), we notice the derivatives of the electromagnetic field of order up to \(N_0\) decays in time, and use the Cauchy inequality, the weighted estimate on the highest order \(N_0\) for the term \(E\cdot v\mu ^{1/2}\) can be dominated by
it follows that
The proper linear combination of (5.1) ,(5.6), (5.8) and (3.35) gives (3.33), therefore (3.34) follows by the time integration of (3.33). This completes the proof of Lemma 3.6. \(\square \)
Now we are ready to obtain the closed estimates on \(\mathcal {E}_N(t)\) and \(\mathcal {E}_{N,l}(t)\) of the time-weighted energy norm X(t) in the following:
Lemma 3.7
It holds that
Proof
Multiplying (3.20) by \((1+t)^{-\epsilon _0}\) gives
Multiplying (3.24) by \((1+t)^{-(1+\epsilon _0)/2}\) yields that
The proper linear combination of (3.20), (3.37) and (3.38) and taking the time integration yield
Here we used the fact that if \(\varrho \in (\frac{1}{2},1]\), we have taken \(l_0=l_{0,1}= l_{0,0}\) such that
while for the case of \(\varrho \in \left( 1,\frac{3}{2}\right) \), we have taken \(l_0=l_{0,0}\) such that
This completes the proof of Lemma 3.7. \(\square \)
3.1 The Proof of Theorem 1.1
Recall X(t)-norm, combining Lemma 3.6 with Lemma 3.7 yields that
The global existence follows further from the local existence and the continuity argument in the usual way. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1.
3.2 The Proof of Theorem 1.3
Based on Theorem 1.1, it follows from Lemma 3.1 that
which gives (1.23). From Lemma 3.2, let \(0\le i\le k\le N_0-3\) be an integer, it holds that
Furthermore, when \(\varrho \in [1,3/2)\),
(1.24) and (1.25) follow from the above two inequalities. To prove (1.26), by using the interpolation method, when \(N_0+1\le |\alpha |\le N-1\), combining the time decay of \(\Vert \nabla ^{N_0}f\Vert \) and the bound of \(\Vert \nabla ^{N}f\Vert \) gives
Thus we have completed the proof of Theorem 1.3.
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Appendices
Appendix 1: The Proof of (3.2)
To obtain the temporal decay estimates on the energy functional \(\mathcal {E}^{k}_{N_0}(t)\), we need the following two lemmas:
Lemma 4.1
Let \(N_0\ge 3\) and \(\frac{1}{2}<\varrho <\frac{3}{2}\), then there exist positive constants \(l'\) and \(\overline{m}\) which depend only on \(N_0\), s, and \(\gamma \) such that the following estimates hold:
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(1)
For \(k=0,1,\ldots ,N_0-2\), it holds that
(4.1)where \(1\le j\le k\).
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(2)
If \(k=N_0-1\), it holds that
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&\frac{d}{dt}(\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}f\Vert ^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}(E,B)\Vert ^2)+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert _D^2\\&\quad \lesssim \max \left\{ \mathcal {E}_{3,\frac{7}{2}+\frac{s-1}{\gamma }}(t),\mathcal {E}_{\overline{m},\overline{m}}(t),\mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0-1,N_0-1+l'}(t) \right\} \\&\qquad \times \big (\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}(E,B)\Vert ^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-2}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert _D^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}f\Vert _D^2\big )+\varepsilon \Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}f\Vert _D^2. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$(4.2) -
(3)
For \(k=N_0\ge 3\), if we take \(n>\frac{2}{3}N_0-\frac{5}{3}\), one has
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&\frac{d}{dt}(\Vert \nabla ^{N_0}f\Vert ^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0}(E,B)\Vert ^2)+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\Vert ^2_{D}\\&\quad \lesssim \max \left\{ \mathcal {E}_{N_0+n}(t),\mathcal {E}_{\overline{m},\overline{m}}(t), \mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0,N_0+l'}(t)\right\} \\&\qquad \times \left( \Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}E\Vert ^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-2}{\mathbf \{I-P\}}f\Vert _D^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}f\Vert _D^2+\Vert \nabla ^{N_0}f\Vert _D^2\right) \\&\qquad +\varepsilon \left\{ \Vert \nabla ^{N_0-1}B\Vert ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-2}{\mathbf \{I-P\}}f\right\| ^2_{H^1_xL^2_D}+\left\| \nabla ^{N_0}f\right\| ^2_D\right\} . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$(4.3)Here \(\overline{m}=\max \left\{ \frac{2\varrho +5}{2\varrho +3}N_0-\frac{6}{2\varrho +3},3+\frac{N_0-2+\varrho }{(\varrho +1)n+3-N_0}\right\} \) and \(l'\ge \max \left\{ \frac{1}{2}+\frac{s-1}{\gamma },\frac{\hat{l}}{-\gamma }\right\} \) where \(\hat{l}=\max \left\{ \hat{l}_1,\hat{l}_{2},\ldots ,\hat{l}_{19}\right\} \) where \(\hat{l}_i\) will be specified in the proofs of Lemma 4.1.
Proof
For the case \(k=0\), multiplying (1.4) by f and integrating the resulting identity with respect to x and v over \(\mathbb {R}_x^3\times \mathbb {R}_v^3\), we have that
For the first term on the right hand of (4.4), we have
The other term can be estimated as follows
Collecting the above estimates gives
which gives (4.1) with \(k=0\).
For \(k=1,2,\ldots ,N_0-2\), applying \(\nabla ^k\) to (1.4), multiplying the resulting identity by \(\nabla ^kf\), and then integrating the final result with respect to x and v over \(\mathbb {R}_x^3\times \mathbb {R}_v^3\), we have that
By applying the macro-micro decomposition, one can deduce that
Applying Lemma 2.5, \(I_{1,1}\) and \(I_{1,2}\) can be dominated by
For \(I_{1,3}\), it holds from the Cauchy inequality and Holder inequalities that
To deal with \(I_{1,3,1}\), when \(j=0\), we have from Lemma 2.5 that
Here \(\theta =\frac{3+2\varrho }{2(k+1+\varrho )}\) and \(\hat{l}_1=\frac{1-\gamma -2s}{\theta }+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}=\frac{2(1-\gamma -2s)(k+1+\varrho )}{3+2\varrho }+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}.\)
While for the case \(j\ne 0\), we can deduce from Lemma 2.5 that
Here we can deduce from Lemma 2.5 that \(\theta _j=\frac{j+\varrho +1}{k+1+\varrho },\ \alpha _j=\frac{2k-2j+1}{2k},\ \frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta _j+\hat{l}_{2j}(1-\beta _j)=1-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}.\) If we set \(\alpha _j\beta _j=1-\theta _j\), then we can get that \(\hat{l}_{2j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{1-\gamma -2s}{1-\beta _j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{(1-\gamma -2s)(2k-2j+1)(k+1+\varrho )}{(2k-2j+1)(k+1+\varrho )-2k(k-j)}\) and we take \(\hat{l}_2=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{1\le j\le k}\left\{ \hat{l}_{2j}\right\} \).
Consequently
For \(I_3\) on the right-hand side of (4.6), we can get
Applying the same trick as the estimate on \(I_{1,1}\), \(I_{3,1}\) and \(I_{3,2}\) can be bounded by
For \(I_{3,3}\), when \(j=k\),
While for the case \(1\le j\le k-1\),
Here we have used the fact that there exists a positive constant \(\beta _j\in (0,1)\) such that
holds for \(1\le j\le k-1\). A necessary and sufficient condition to guarantee the existence of such a \(\beta \) is
from which one can deduce that \(m_{1j}> \frac{2k^2+2\varrho k-2jk-k-2j\varrho -\varrho }{2k\varrho +3k+2\varrho ^2+3\varrho -2j}\) holds for \(1\le j\le k-1\). Noticing that \(\frac{1}{2}<\varrho <\frac{3}{2}\), it is easy to see that we can take
Consequently, \(k-j+1+m_{1j}\le k+m_{1}=\frac{2\varrho +5}{2\varrho +3}k+\frac{2\varrho -3}{2\varrho +3}\le \frac{2\varrho +5}{2\varrho +3}N_0-\frac{2\varrho +13}{2\varrho +3}\) with \(N_0\ge 4\).
Moreover, since \(\hat{l}_{3j}\) and \(\hat{l}_{4j}\) satisfy \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\beta _j+\hat{l}_{3j}(1-\beta _j)=0\) and \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}{\beta _j}+\hat{l}_{4j}(1-\beta _j)=1\) with \(0<\beta _j<1\) respectively, one can deduce that \(\hat{l}_{3j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2(1-\beta _j)}\) and \(\hat{l}_{4j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s-2}{2(1-\beta _j)}\), from which we can see that \(\hat{l}_{4j}>\hat{l}_{3j}\) where
Here we take \(\hat{l}_{4}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{1\le j\le k-1}\left\{ \hat{l}_{4j}\right\} \).
Consequently,
By the same way as the estimate on \(I_3\), the term \(I_2\) containing E on the right-hand side of (4.6) can be bounded by
For the last term \(I_4\) on the right-hand side of (4.6), it follows that
The first term \(I_{4,1}\) on the right-hand side of (4.11) can be estimated as follows:
From Lemma 2.5, we can obtain
When \(j\le k-1\), the second term \(I_{4,2}\) on the right-hand side of (4.11) can be bounded by
Here \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta _j+\hat{l}_{5j}(1-\beta _j)=0.\) If we set \(\frac{j+1}{k}\beta _j=\frac{2j+1}{2(k+1)}\), then we can get that \(\hat{l}_{5j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{-\gamma -2s}{2(1-\beta _j)}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{(-\gamma -2s)(k+1)(j+1)}{2(k+1)(j+1)-k(2j+1)}\) and we take \(\hat{l}_{5}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{j\le k-1}\hat{l}_{5j}\).
When \(j=k\),
Here \(\theta =\frac{2k-1}{2(k+1)},\) \( \frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \theta +\hat{l}_6(1-\theta )=0 \) from Lemma 2.5 which deduce that \(\hat{l}_6=-\frac{(2k-1)(\gamma +2s)}{6}\).
Consequently,
Collecting the above estimate gives (4.1). When \(k=N_0-1\ge 2\), (4.6) tells us that
To estimate \(I_5\), due to
From Lemma 2.5, using \(L^\infty -L^2-L^2\) Soblev inequality implies that
where \(\theta =\frac{3+2\varrho }{2(N_0-1+\varrho )}\) and \(\hat{l}_7=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{1-\gamma -2s}{\theta }=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{2(N_0-1+\varrho )(1-\gamma -2s)}{3+2\varrho },\)
Applying \(L^6-L^3-L^2\) Soblev inequality yields that
Here \(\theta _j=\frac{j+\varrho +1}{N_0-1+\varrho }\) and \(\alpha _j=\frac{2N_0-1-j}{2(N_0-1)}\) by using Lemma 2.5. Meanwhile, we set \(\alpha _j\beta _j=1-\theta _j\) and \(\hat{l}_{8j}\) satisfies
it is easy to obtain that \(\hat{l}_{8j}=\frac{1-\gamma -2s}{1-\beta _j}+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\) where \(\beta _j=\frac{2(N_0-j-2)(N_0-1)}{(N_0-1+\varrho )(2N_0-1-j)}\). We take \(\hat{l}_{8}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{1\le j\le N_0-2}\left\{ \hat{l}_{8j}\right\} \).
Consequently,
The third term \(I_{7}\) on the right-hand side of (4.15) can be estimated as follows:
\(I_{7,1}\) and \(I_{7,2}\) on the right-hand side of (4.19) can be bounded by
\(I_{7,3}\) on the right-hand side of (4.19) can be bounded by
Here we have used the fact that there exists a positive constant \(\beta _j\in (0,1)\) such that
holds for \(1\le j\le N_0-3\). A necessary and sufficient condition to guarantee the existence of such a \(\beta \) is
from which one can deduce that \(m_{2j}>\frac{2N_0-5-2j}{2\varrho +3}\) holds for \(1\le j\le N_0-3\). Noticing that \(\frac{1}{2}<\varrho <\frac{3}{2}\), it is easy to see that we can take
Consequently, \(N_0-j+m_{2j}\le N_0+m_{2}=\frac{2\varrho +5}{2\varrho +3}N_0-\frac{6}{2\varrho +3}\) with \(N_0\ge 4\).
Moreover, since \(\hat{l}_{9j}\) and \(\hat{l}_{10j}\) satisfy \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\beta _j+\hat{l}_{9j}(1-\beta _j)=0\) and \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}{\beta _j}+\hat{l}_{10j}(1-\beta _j)=1\) with \(0<\beta _j<1\) respectively, one can deduce that \(\hat{l}_{9j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2(1-\beta )}\) and \(\hat{l}_{10j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s-2}{2(1-\beta _j)}\), from which we can see that \(\hat{l}_{10j}>\hat{l}_{9j}\) where
Here we take \(\hat{l}_{10}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{1\le j\le N_0-3}\left\{ \hat{l}_{10j}\right\} \). Consequently,
Applying the same trick as \(I_7\) by replacing \(v\times B\) with E, one can obtain
For the last term \(I_{8}\) on the right hand side of (4.15), as (4.11), one has
Collecting the above estimates gives (4.2). Now we turn to the last case \(k=N_0\ge 3\), we have
For the first term \(I_{9}\) on the right hand of the above inequality,
\(I_{9,1}\) and \(I_{9,2}\) can be bounded by
Here we can deduce that \(\theta =\frac{3+2\varrho }{2(N_0-1+\varrho )}\) from Lemma 2.5, and \(\hat{l}_{11}\) satisfies the following equation \(\hat{l}_{11}\theta +\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}(1-\theta )=-\frac{\gamma }{2}-s+1\) which deduces that \(\hat{l}_{11}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s-1}{\theta }=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{2(N_0-1+\varrho )(\gamma +2s-1)}{3+2\varrho }\).
Using \(L^2-L^\infty -L^2\) gives
Applying the similar method as (4.17), the last term \(I_{9,5}\) on the right-hand side of (4.24) can be dominated by
Here \(\theta _j=\frac{j+1+\varrho }{N_0-1+\varrho }\) and \(\alpha _j=\frac{2N_0-2j+1}{2(N_0-1)}\) by using Lemma 2.5. Meanwhile, we set \(\alpha _j\beta _j=1-\theta _j\) and \(\hat{l}_{12j}\) satisfies
it is easy to obtain that \(\hat{l}_{12j}=-\frac{\gamma +2s-1}{1-\beta _j}+\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\) where \(\beta _j=\frac{2(N_0-2-j)(N_0-1)}{(2N_0-2j+1)(N_0-1+\varrho )}\). Here we take \(\hat{l}_{12}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{2\le j\le N_0-2}\hat{l}_{12j}\).
For the most important term \(I_{9,4}\), if \(n>\frac{2}{3}N_0-\frac{5}{3}\), we have from Lemma 2.5 that
Here we require that \(\frac{3\alpha }{2N_0-2}=\frac{1}{n+1}\) which deduces that \(\alpha =\frac{2N_0-2}{3(n+1)}\). We set \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \alpha +\hat{l}_{13}(1-\alpha )=1-\frac{\gamma }{2}-s\) which yields that \(\hat{l}_{13}=\frac{1-\frac{\gamma }{2}-s-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \alpha }{1-\alpha }=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{1-\gamma -2s}{1-\alpha }=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}+\frac{3(1-\gamma -2s)(n+1)}{3n-2 N_0+1}.\)
Consequently, one has
For the second term \(I_{11}\) on the right-hand side of (4.23),
By the similar way as (4.24), \(I_{11,1}\) can be bounded by
For the second term \(I_{11,2}\) and \(I_{11,3}\) on the right-hand side of (4.23),
Here we can get \(\hat{l}_{14}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2(1-\beta )}\) and \(\hat{l}_{15}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s-2}{2(1-\beta _j)}\) from \( \frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta +\hat{l}_{14}(1-\beta )=0 \) and \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta +\hat{l}_{15}(1-\beta )=1 \). Moreover we require that \(\frac{\beta }{2(N_0-1+s)}+\beta =1\) which yields that \(\beta =\frac{2(N_0-1+s)}{2N_0-1+2s}\).
As the estimate on \(I_{9,4}\), we have
Here we need to ask \(\frac{n}{1+n}+\frac{m_3(1+\varrho )\beta }{(1+m_3)(N_0-2+\varrho )}+\beta =2\) which deduces that \(m_3>\frac{N_0-2+\varrho }{\varrho n+n+3-N_0},\) we can get \(\hat{l}_{19j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2(1-\beta )}\) and \(\hat{l}_{20}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{{\gamma +2s}-2}{2(1-\beta )}\) from \( \frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta +\hat{l}_{19j}(1-\beta )=0 \) and \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\cdot \beta +\hat{l}_{20}(1-\beta )=1 \). We can choose \(m_3\) suitably such that \(3+m_3\le 3+\frac{N_0-2+\varrho }{(\varrho +1)n+3-N_0}\).
While for the case \(1\le j\le N_0-3\), one has
Here we have used the fact that there exist positive constants \(m_{8j}\) and \(\beta _j\in (0,1)\) such that \( \frac{2j+2\varrho +3}{2(N_0-1+\varrho )}+\frac{m_{4j}(N_0+\varrho -j)\beta _j}{(m_{4j}+1)(N_0-1+\varrho )}+\beta _j=2 \) holds for \(1\le j\le N_0-3\). Similar to the way to determine of \(m_{1j}\), it is sufficient to take
Consequently, \(N_0-j+1+m_{4j}\le N_0+m_{4} = \frac{2\varrho +7}{2\varrho +5}N_0-\frac{6}{2\varrho +3}\) with \(N_0\ge 4\). Moreover, since \(\hat{l}_{18j}\) and \(\hat{l}_{19j}\) satisfy \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}\beta _j+\hat{l}_{18j}(1-\beta _j)=0\) and \(\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}{\beta _j}+\hat{l}_{19j}(1-\beta _j)=1\) with \(0<\beta _j<1\) respectively, one can deduce that, \(\hat{l}_{18j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{\gamma +2s}{2(1-\beta )}\) and \(\hat{l}_{19j}=\frac{\gamma +2s}{2}-\frac{{\gamma +2s}-2}{2(1-\beta _j)}\) from which we can see that \(\hat{l}_{19j}>\hat{l}_{18j}\) where
Here we take \(\hat{l}_{19}=\displaystyle \max \nolimits _{1\le j\le N_0-3}\left\{ \hat{l}_{19j}\right\} \).
Consequently, one has
Applying the same trick as \(I_{11}\), we have
For the last term on the right-hand side of (4.23), by the similar way as (4.22), one has
Thus collecting the above estimates gives (4.3). This completes the proof of Lemma 4.1. \(\square \)
The next lemma is concerned with the macro dissipation \(\mathcal {D}_{N,mac}(t)\) defined by
Applying the argument of Lemma 3.2 in [15, p 3727] and Lemma 3.3 in [15, p 3731], we easily have the following lemma:
Lemma 4.2
For the macro dissipation estimates on f(t, x, v), we have the following results:
-
(i)
For \(k=0,1,2\ldots ,N_0-2\), there exists interactive energy functionals \(G^k_f(t)\) satisfying
$$\begin{aligned} G^k_f(t)\lesssim \left\| \nabla ^k(f,E,B)\right\| ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{k+1}(f,E,B)\right\| ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{k+2}E\right\| ^2 \end{aligned}$$such that
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&\frac{d}{dt}G^k_f(t)+\left\| \nabla ^k(E,a_+-a_-)\right\| _{H^1}^2+\left\| \nabla ^{k+1}({\mathbf P}f,B)\right\| ^2\\&\quad \lesssim \mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0-1,0}(t)\left( \left\| \nabla ^{k+1}(E,B)\right\| ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{k+1}f\right\| ^2_D\right) +\left\| \nabla ^k\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D\\&\qquad +\left\| \nabla ^{k+1}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D +\left\| \nabla ^{k+2}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D; \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$(4.33) -
(ii)
For \(k=N_0-1\), there exists an interactive energy functional \(G^{N_0-1}_f(t)\) satisfying
$$\begin{aligned} G^{N_0-1}_f(t)\lesssim \left\| \nabla ^{N_0-2}(f,E,B)\right\| ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-1}(f,E,B)\right\| ^2 +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0}(f,E)\right\| ^2 \end{aligned}$$such that
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&\frac{d}{dt}G^{N_0-1}_f(t) +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-2}(E,a_+-a_-)\right\| _{H^1}^2+\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-1}B \right\| ^2+\left\| \nabla ^{N_0}{\mathbf P}f\right\| ^2\\&\quad \,\lesssim \mathcal {\bar{E}}_{N_0,0}(t)\left( \left\| \nabla ^{N_0-1}(E,B)\right\| ^2 +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-1}f\right\| ^2_D\right) +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-2}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D\\&\quad \quad +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0-1}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D +\left\| \nabla ^{N_0}\{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| ^2_D; \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$(4.34) -
(iii)
As [4], there exists an interactive energy functional \(\mathcal {E}^{int}_N(t)\) satisfying
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {E}^{int}_N(t)\lesssim \sum _{|\alpha |\le N}\left\| \partial ^\alpha (f,E,B)\right\| ^2 \end{aligned}$$such that
$$\begin{aligned} \frac{d}{dt}\mathcal {E}^{int}_N(t)+\mathcal {D}_{N,mac}(t)\lesssim \sum _{|\alpha |\le N}\left\| \partial ^\alpha \{\mathbf{I-P}\}f\right\| _D^2+\mathcal {E}_N(t)\mathcal {D}_N(t) \end{aligned}$$(4.35)holds for any \(t\in [0,T]\).
Appendix 2: The Estimates in the Negative Space
To close the first part of the a priori assumption (3.1), we have the following lemma: the first one is about the estimate of \(\Vert (f,E,B)(t)\Vert _{\dot{H}^{-\varrho }}\).
Lemma 5.1
Under the assumptions stated above, we have for \(\varrho \in \ (\frac{1}{2}, \frac{3}{2})\) that
Proof
We have by taking Fourier transform of (1.4) with respect to x, multiplying the resulting identity by \(|\xi |^{-2{s}}\bar{\hat{f}}_\pm \) with \(\bar{\hat{f}}_\pm \) which is the complex conjugate of \(\hat{f}_\pm \), and integrating the final result with respect to \(\xi \) and v over \(\mathbb {R}^3_\xi \times \mathbb {R}^3_v\) that
Recalling that throughout this manuscript, \(\mathcal {F}[g](t,\xi ,v)=\hat{g}(t,\xi ,v)\) denotes the Fourier transform of g(t, x, v) with respect to x. (5.2) together with (2.1) yields
To estimate \(J_j\) \((j=7,8,9)\), we have from Lemmas 2.1, 2.5, and 2.6 that
For \(J_8\) and \(J_9\), we have by repeating the argument used in deducing the estimate on \(J_7\) that
\(J_{10}\) can be bounded from Lemma 2.3 by
Substituting the estimates on \(J_j (j=7,8,9,10)\) into (5.3) yields
Thus we complete this proof of lemma 5.1. \(\square \)
For the macro dissipation estimate on \(\Vert \Lambda ^{1-\varrho }{\mathbf P}f\Vert ^2\), applying the argument of Lemma 3.2 in [15, page3727] and Lemma 3.3 in [15, page3731], we easily have the following lemma:
Lemma 5.2
Let \(\varrho \in \left( \frac{1}{2}, \frac{3}{2}\right) \), there exists an interactive functional \(G^{-\varrho }_{f}(t)\) satisfying
such that
holds for any \(0\le t\le T\). Moreover, there exists an interactive functional \(G_{E,B}(t)\) satisfying
such that
holds for any \(0\le t\le T\).
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Fan, Y., Lei, Y. Global Solutions and Time Decay of the Non-cutoff Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann System in the Whole Space. J Stat Phys 161, 1059–1097 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-015-1380-0
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