On eventual compactness of collisionless kinetic semigroups with velocities bounded away from zero

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the long time behaviour of collisionless kinetic equation with stochastic diffuse boundary operators for velocities bounded away from zero. We show that under suitable reasonable conditions, the semigroup is eventually compact. In particular, without any irreducibility assumption, the semigroup converges exponentially to the spectral projection associated with the zero eigenvalue as \(t \rightarrow \infty .\) This contrasts drastically to the case allowing arbitrarily slow velocities for which the absence of a spectral gap yields at most algebraic rate of convergence to equilibrium. Some open questions are also mentioned.