Compressible Euler–Maxwell limit for global smooth solutions to the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system

Abstract

Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov–Maxwell–Boltzmann system and the compressible Euler–Maxwell system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electromagnetic interactions at the kinetic and fluid levels, respectively. It has remained a long-standing open problem to rigorously justify the hydrodynamic limit from the former to the latter as the Knudsen number [Formula: see text] tends to zero. In this paper, we give an affirmative answer to the problem for smooth solutions to both systems near constant equilibrium in the whole space in case when only the dynamics of electrons is taken into account. The explicit rate of convergence in [Formula: see text] over an almost global time interval is also obtained for well-prepared data. For the proof, one of main difficulties occurs to the cubic growth of large velocities due to the action of the classical transport operator on local Maxwellians and we develop new [Formula: see text]-dependent energy estimates basing on the macro–micro decomposition to characterize the asymptotic limit in the compressible setting.