Propagation of L1 and L∞ Maxwellian Weighted Bounds for Derivatives of Solutions to the Homogeneous Elastic Boltzmann Equation

We consider the n-dimensional space homogeneous Boltzmann equation for elastic collisions for variable hard potentials with Grad (angular) cutoff. We prove sharp moment inequalities, the propagation of L-Maxwellian weighted estimates, and consequently, the propagation L-Maxwellian weighted estimates to all derivatives of the initial value problem associated to the afore mentioned problem. More specifically, we extend to all derivatives of the initial value problem associated to this class of Boltzmann equations corresponding sharp moment (Povzner) inequalities and time propagation of L-Maxwellian weighted estimates as originally developed Bobylev [2] in the case of hard spheres in 3 dimensions; an improved sharp moments inequalities to a larger class of angular cross sections and L-exponential bounds in the case of stationary states to Boltzmann equations for inelastic interaction problems with ‘heating’ sources, by Bobylev-Gamba-Panferov [3], where high energy tail decay rates depend on the inelasticity coefficient and the the type of ‘heating’ source; and more recently, extended to variable hard potentials with angular cutoff by Gamba-Panferov-Villani [5] in the elastic case collision case and so L-Maxwellian weighted estimated were shown to propagate if initial states have such property. In addition, we also extend to all derivatives the propagation of LMaxwellian weighted estimates, proven in [5], to solutions of the initial value problem to the Boltzmann equations for elastic collisions for variable hard potentials with Grad (angular) cutoff.