The Landau equation for Maxwellian molecules and the Brownian motion on SON(R)

• Published in: Electronic journal of probability
• Main Authors: Delarue, François, Menozzi, Stéphane, Nualart, Eulàlia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) 2015
• Subjects: Heat kernel estimates on groups; Landau equation for Maxwellian molecules; Large deviations; Stochastic analysis
• ISSN: 1083-6489; 1083-6489
• DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v20-4012

In this paper we prove that the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for Maxwellian moleculescan be represented through the product of two elementary stochastic processes. The first one is the Brownian motion on the group of rotations. The second one is, conditionally on the first one, a Gaussian process. Using this representation, we establish sharp multi-scale upper and lower bounds for the transition density of the Landau equation, the multi-scale structure depending on the shape of the support of the initial condition.
For the second author, the article was prepared within the framework of a subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Program. Third author acknowledges support from the European Union programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG under grant agreement 333938.