Landau damping for analytic and Gevrey data

Abstract

In this paper, we give an elementary proof of the nonlinear Landau damping for the Vlasov-Poisson system near Penrose stable equilibria on the torus ${\mathbb{T}}^d\times {\mathbb{R}}^d$ that was first obtained by Mouhot and Villani in \cite{MV} for analytic data and subsequently extended by Bedrossian, Masmoudi, and Mouhot \cite{BMM} for Gevrey-$\gamma$ data, $\gamma \in (\frac{1}{3},1]$. Our proof relies on simple pointwise resolvent estimates and a standard nonlinear bootstrap analysis, using an ad-hoc family of analytic and Gevrey-$\gamma$ norms.

Mathematical Research Letters, to appear