Duan, Renjun; Yang, Tong; Zhu, Changjiang Boltzmann equation with external force and Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in infinite vacuum. (English) Zbl 1185.35035 Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 16, No. 1, 253-277 (2006). Summary: In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation with an external force and the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in infinite vacuum. The global existence of solutions is first proved for the Boltzmann equation with an external force which is integrable with respect to time in some sense under the smallness assumption on initial data in weighted norms. For the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system, the smallness assumption on initial data leads to the decay of the potential field which in turn gives the global existence of solutions by the result on the case with external forces and an iteration argument. The results obtained here generalize those previous works on these topics and they hold for a class of general cross sections including the hard-sphere model. Cited in 23 Documents MSC: 35F25 Initial value problems for nonlinear first-order PDEs 35Q20 Boltzmann equations 76P05 Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics 82C40 Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics Keywords:Boltzmann equation; Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system; global existence; classical solutions PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. Duan} et al., Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 16, No. 1, 253--277 (2006; Zbl 1185.35035) Full Text: DOI