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Smooth expanding planar simple waves for Euler--Poisson--Boltzmann: uniform stability and quasineutral expansion

arXiv:2609.01589

Abstract

We study the warm-ion Euler--Poisson system with Maxwell--Boltzmann electrons on the cylinder $\R\times\T$ in the quasineutral regime. Taking a smooth expanding planar simple wave of the effective Euler system as the reference state, we construct an even Debye expansion through arbitrary finite order with a residual of $O(\eps^{2M+2})$. We rigorously establish nonlinear stability on every fixed interval (), achieving a lifespan and energy constants strictly independent of the Debye length $0<\eps\le\eps_0$. To overcome the singular scaling of the electric field, we develop a novel compensated energy topology that couples the warm-ion symmetrizer to the time-differentiated nonlinear Poisson constraint. By integrating the top-order electric work directly into the time derivative of a weighted energy functional, this mechanism controls the potential in and its gradient in $\eps H^s$, completely eliminating the $\eps^{-1}$ loss typically encountered in the momentum equation. This framework successfully governs distinct neutral end states, captures genuinely two-dimensional rotational perturbations, and yields an arbitrary-order quasineutral asymptotic expansion for prepared data, providing a critical analytical foundation for the geometric theory of multidimensional quasineutral rarefactions.