Special Session 95: 

On the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation.

JIN-CHENG JIANG
National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan
Co-Author(s):    Lingbing He
Abstract:
In this talk, we will present some recent progress on the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation without cutoff. We prove the local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem with general initial data in weighted Sobolev spaces with polynomial weights. We do not assume that the solution initially is a small perturbation of some background solution, for instance, the equilibrium.