Special Session 76: Recent Developments in Nonlinear and Nonlocal Evolution Equations

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation near equilibrium

Gi-Chan Bae
Seoul National University / Research institute of Mathematics
Korea
Co-Author(s):    Jin Woo Jang, Seok-Bae Yun
Abstract:
The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation (or the relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation) describes the dynamics of single-species fast-moving quantum particles. With the recent development of the relativistic quantum mechanics, the relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation has been widely used in physics and engineering such as in the quantum collision experiments and the simulations of electrons in graphene. In spite of such importance, there has been no mathematical theory on the existence of solutions for the relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation to the best of authors` knowledge. In this talk, we consider the global existence of a unique classical solution to the relativistic Boltzmann equation for both bosons and fermions when the initial distribution is nearby a global equilibrium. This is joint work with J. W. Jang and S. B. Yun.