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# Stability of the nonrelativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system for angular non-cutoff potentials

• Although there recently have been extensive studies on the perturbation theory of the angular non-cutoff Boltzmann equation (cf. [4] and [17]), it remains mathematically unknown when there is a self-consistent Lorentz force coupled with the Maxwell equations in the nonrelativistic approximation. In the paper, for perturbative initial data with suitable regularity and integrability, we establish the large time stability of solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system with physical angular non-cutoff intermolecular collisions including the inverse power law potentials, and also obtain as a byproduct the convergence rates of solutions. The proof is based on a new time-velocity weighted energy method with two key technical parts: one is to introduce the exponentially weighted estimates into the non-cutoff Boltzmann operator and the other to design a delicate temporal energy $X(t)$-norm to obtain its uniform bound. The result also extends the case of the hard sphere model considered by Guo [Invent. Math. 153(3): 593--630 (2003)] to the general collision potentials.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q20, 76P05; Secondary: 35B35, 35B40.

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