Propagation of chaos for the Landau equation with very soft and Coulomb potentials

Abstract

We consider a drift-diffusion process of $N$ stochastic particles and show that its empirical measure converges, as $N\to \infty$, to the solution of the Landau equation. We work in the regime of very soft and Coulomb potentials using a tightness/uniqueness method. To claim uniqueness, we need high integrability estimates that we obtain by crucially exploiting the dissipation of the Fisher information at the level of the particle system. To be able to exploit these estimates as $N\to \infty$, we prove the affinity in infinite dimension of the entropy production and Fisher information dissipation (and other first and second-order versions of the Fisher information through a general theorem), results which were up to now only known for the entropy and the usual Fisher information.

version 1 was submitted on June 18th 2025, covering very soft potentials only. version 2 was submitted on June 30th to cover Coulomb potentials, and to acknowledge the preprint by Feng and Wang submitted on June 17th