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June  2011, 4(2): 401-426. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.401

On a relativistic Fokker-Planck equation in kinetic theory

José Antonio Alcántara 1, and  Simone Calogero 2,

1. 

Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
2. 

Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada

Received  November 2010 Revised  January 2011 Published  April 2011

A relativistic kinetic Fokker-Planck equation that has been recently proposed in the physical literature is studied. It is shown that, in contrast to other existing relativistic models, the one considered in this paper is invariant under Lorentz transformations in the absence of friction. A similar property (invariance by Galilean transformations in the absence of friction) is verified in the non-relativistic case. In the first part of the paper some fundamental mathematical properties of the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation are established. In particular, it is proved that the model is compatible with the finite propagation speed of particles in relativity. In the second part of the paper, two non-linear relativistic mean-field models are introduced. One is obtained by coupling the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation to the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics, and is therefore of interest in plasma physics. The other mean-field model couples the Fokker-Planck dynamics to a relativistic scalar theory of gravity (the Nordström theory) and is therefore of interest in gravitational physics. In both cases the existence of steady states for all possible prescribed values of the mass is established. In the gravitational case this result is better than for the corresponding non-relativistic model, the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system, for which existence of steady states is known only for small mass.
Keywords: Vlasov-Nordström-Fokker-Planck, Vlasov-Maxwell-Fokker-Planck, existence of steady states..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q75, 74A26; Secondary: 74G3.
Citation: José Antonio Alcántara, Simone Calogero. On a relativistic Fokker-Planck equation in kinetic theory. Kinetic & Related Models, 2011, 4 (2) : 401-426. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.401
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R. T. Glassey, J. Schaeffer and Y. Zheng, Steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system,, J. Math. An. Appl., 202 (1996), 1058.  doi: 10.1006/jmaa.1996.0360.  Google Scholar

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Z. Haba, Relativistic diffusion of elementary particles with spin,, Journ. Phys. A, 42 (2009).  doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/44/445401.  Google Scholar

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C.-P. Ma and E. Bertschinger, A cosmological kinetic theory for the evolution of cold dark matter halos with substructure: Quasi-linear theory,, The Astroph. J., 612 (2004), 28.   Google Scholar

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M. Risken, "The Fokker-Planck Equation: Methods of Solutions and Applications,", Springer Series in Synergetics {\bf 18}, 18 (1996).   Google Scholar

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M. Schunck, M. Hegmann and E. Sedlmayr, The influence of stochastic density fluctuations on the infrared emissions of interstellar dark clouds,, Mon. Noti. Royal Astron. Soc., 374 (2007), 949.  doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11215.x.  Google Scholar

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C. Villani, Hypocoercivity,, Memoirs of the AMS, 202 (2009).   Google Scholar

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