Some Estimates on the Boltzmann Collision Operator

Abstract

The paper presents some new estimates on the gain term of the Boltzmann collision operator. For Maxwellian molecules, it is shown that the L∞-norm of the gain term can be bounded in terms of the L1- and L∞-norm of the density function f. In the case of more general collision kernels, like the hard-sphere interaction potential, the gain term is estimated pointwise by the L∞-norm of the density function and the loss term of the Boltzmann collision operator.