Global convergence in non-relativistic limits for Euler-Maxwell system near non-constant equilibrium

Abstract

In this paper, we study the global-in-time convergence of non-relativistic limits from Euler-Maxwell systems to Euler-Poisson systems near non-constant equilibrium states by letting the reciprocal of the speed of light ν:=1/c→0. In previous studies, the dissipative estimates for the electric field E appear to be singular and the orders of singularities for divE and ∇×E are different, hence a div-curl decomposition should be considered in our case, and this makes it unclear the preservation of the anti-symmetric structure of the system and the global-in-time L2–estimate of the smooth solutions. To overcome these difficulties, we find a strictly convex entropy of the system that is valid for the case of non-constant equilibrium to obtain the global L2–estimate and use some induction arguments to close the estimates. It is worth mentioning that in our proof, very careful and accurate estimates of solutions are needed and we show that the electric field E is actually non-singular, which is vital and necessary for our proof.