Local Well-Posedness for Vlasov--Poisson with $L^{d+}$ Initial Density and Fractional Velocity Regularity

Abstract

We prove a local well-posedness criterion for the Vlasov--Poisson system on ${\mathbb{R}}_x^d\times {\mathbb{R}}_v^d$, $d\ge 2$, under an anisotropic assumption on the initial distribution. The datum has finite mass, its weighted velocity supremum belongs to $L_x^p$ for some $p>d$, and it has an arbitrarily small positive Hölder regularity in the velocity variable, uniformly with respect to velocity and with the same spatial $L^p$ control. The main estimate is a nonlinear mixing bound \[ [ρ(t)]_{C^α_x}\lesssim t^{-d/p-ε}C(f_0), \qquad ε>0~~\text{small}. \] Thus the density is integrable in time with values in a positive spatial Hölder class, and the corresponding electric field belongs to $L_t^1{C}_x^{1,\alpha }$. We construct a solution by a Schauder fixed point on the density and prove uniqueness by a Loeper-type stability estimate.

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