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Scalable and Quasi-Contractive Markov Coupling of Maxwell Collision

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This paper considers space homogenous Boltzmann kinetic equations in dimension $d$ with Maxwell collisions (and without Grad's cut-off). An explicit Markov coupling of the associated conservative (Nanbu) stochastic $N$-particle system is constructed, using plain parallel coupling of isotropic random walks on the sphere of two-body collisional directions. The resulting coupling is almost surely decreasing, and the $L_2$-coupling creation is computed explicitly. Some quasi-contractive and uniform in $N$ coupling / coupling creation inequalities are then proved, relying on $2+\alpha$-moments ($\alpha >0$) of velocity distributions; upon $N$-uniform propagation of moments of the particle system, it yields a $N$-scalable $\alpha$-power law trend to equilibrium. The latter are based on an original sharp inequality, which bounds from above the coupling distance of two centered and normalized random variables $(U,V)$ in $\R^d$, with the average square parallelogram area spanned by $(U-U_\ast,V-V_\ast)$, $(U_\ast,V_\ast)$ denoting an independent copy. Two counter-examples proving the necessity of the dependance on $>2$-moments and the impossibility of strict contractivity are provided. The paper, (mostly) self-contained, does not require any propagation of chaos property and uses only elementary tools.
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hal-00915495 , version 1 (08-12-2013)
hal-00915495 , version 2 (12-12-2013)
hal-00915495 , version 3 (21-02-2014)

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Mathias Rousset. Scalable and Quasi-Contractive Markov Coupling of Maxwell Collision. 2013. ⟨hal-00915495v3⟩
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