The relativistic Boltzmann equation for a constant differential cross section and with periodic boundary conditions is considered. The speed of light appears as a parameter c>c0 for a properly large and positive c0. A local existence and uniqueness theorem is proved in an interval of time independent of c>c0 and conditions are given such that in the limit c→+∞ the solutions converge, in a suita...

We will mainly consider the Sinh-Gordon model in finite spacial volume which corresponds to imposing the periodic boundary conditions φ(x + R) = φ(x). A lot is known about the Sinh-Gordon model in infinite volume R → ∞, see e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The spectrum contains a single particle with mass m which is related to the parameter μ in (1.1) in a definite way [6], see eqn. (5.32) below. The S-ma...