The global well-posedness and Newtonian limit for the relativistic Boltzmann equation in a periodic box

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Newtonian limit for relativistic Boltzmann equation in a periodic box ${\mathbb{T}}^3$. We first establish the global-in-time mild solutions of relativistic Boltzmann equation with uniform-in-$\mathfrak{c}$ estimates and time decay rate. Then we rigorously justify the global-in-time Newtonian limits from the relativistic Boltzmann solutions to the solution of Newtonian Boltzmann equation in $L_p^1{L}_x^{\infty }$. Moreover, if the initial data of Newtonian Boltzmann equation belong to $W^{1,\infty }({\mathbb{T}}^3\times {\mathbb{R}}^3)$, based on a decomposition and $L^2-L^{\infty }$ argument, the global-in-time Newtonian limit is proved in $L_{x,p}^{\infty }$. The convergence rates of Newtonian limit are obtained both in $L_p^1{L}_x^{\infty }$ and $L_{x,p}^{\infty }$.

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