Runaway avalanches in plasmas with external electric fields: spatially inhomogeneous case in a perturbation framework


Abstract

We consider the Landau-Coulomb equation for a (hydrogen) plasma heated by an external electric field. In this setting, theoretical and experimental results in plasma physics show the emergence of so-called runaway electrons which are linearly accelerating but only lead to a minimal increase of the plasma temperature. Runaway electrons are a major obstacle in nuclear fusion since they can overcome the confinement and damage the structure of the reactor.

We rigorously prove the well-posedness of the underlying nonlinear open Landau-Coulomb system in a perturbative setting and the conjectured growth bounds for the mean velocity and plasma temperature. We show that the mean velocity is linearly increasing in time, and capture the sharp logarithmic growth of the temperature. Furthermore, we prove that the electron distribution can be asymptotically described by a scattering-type Maxwellian. Due to the different nature of the electron-electron and electron-ion interactions, we recast the equation as a novel coupled system that allows us to isolate the dissipation structures of the two operators. For the coupled system, we perform a micro-macro decomposition to show convergence to the scattering-type Maxwellian.

1 Introduction↩︎

A plasma is a collection of fast-moving, charged particles whose long-range Coulomb interactions dominate over infrequent collisions. Nuclear fusion requires plasma of very high temperature, so the confined plasma in fusion reactors is heated by an external source. More precisely, the temperature of the electron distribution increases as a result of acceleration through the electric field in combination with the friction induced by the interaction with the much slower ions. This process can be interrupted by a runaway avalanche, where the electron-ion friction is insufficient to stop an uninhibited acceleration of electrons. The emergence of runaway avalanches is one of the main obstacles in nuclear fusion, and a major concern for the operation of large Tokamak reactors such as ITER [1], [2]. For a comprehensive review of the physics of runaway electrons see [3], [4].

Remarkably, the emergence of runaway electrons in plasma physics has been explained by Dreicer with a classical model in kinetic theory [5]. To this end, consider a hydrogen plasma driven by an electric field \(E\), where the coupled system is described by two Landau equations that determine the distribution functions \(F_{-}(t,x,v)\) for electrons and \(F_{+}(t,x,v)\) for ions (protons): \[\begin{align} &&\partial_t F_-+v\cdot \nabla_xF_--\frac{\mathrm{e}}{m_-}E\cdot \nabla_v F_-=Q_{--}(F_-,F_-)+Q_{+-}(F_+,F_-),\\ &&\partial_t F_++v\cdot \nabla_xF_++\frac{\mathrm{e}}{m_+}E\cdot \nabla_v F_+=Q_{++}(F_+,F_-)+Q_{-+}(F_-,F_+). \end{align}\] In the above, \(\mathrm{e}\) is the electron charge, \(m_-\) and \(m_+\) are the mass of the electron and ion respectively. Moreover, \(Q_{--},Q_{-+},Q_{+-}\) and \(Q_{++}\) are the Landau-Coulomb collision operator, derived by Landau in 1936 [6], \[\begin{align} Q_{ij}(F_i,F_j)(v)=\frac{1}{m_j}div_v\Big(\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}c_{ij}a(v-v_*)\Big(\frac{1}{m_j}F_i(v_*)\nabla_vF_j(v)-\frac{1}{m_i}F_j(v)\nabla_{v_*}F_i(v_*)\Big)dv_*\Big) \end{align}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{az} a(z)=|z|^{-1} \Pi(z):=|z|^{-1}\left(\mathbf{I} -\frac{z\otimes z}{|z|^2} \right),\quad c_{ij}=\frac{|\ln \Lambda_c|n_in_j}{8\pi \varepsilon_0^2},\quad i,j=-,+, \end{align}\tag{1}\] where \(|\ln \Lambda_c|\) is the Coulomb logarithm, and \(\varepsilon_0\) is the vacuum permittivity. The constants \(n_-\) and \(n_+\) are the number densities of the electrons and ions so that we can assume \(F_\pm\) to be probability densities.

In all physical situations, the electron mass \(m_-\) is much smaller than the ion mass \(m_+\). For instance, \(m_-/m_+\approx 5.4\times 10^{-4}\) for a hydrogen plasma. In the limit \(m_-/m_+\rightarrow 0\), the ions can be considered static relative to the electrons and the electron-ion collision operator becomes a spherical diffusion in velocity space. This approximation is commonly used in plasma physics to obtain a closed equation for the electron distribution, see for example [7]. The kinetic equation for the electron distribution \(F\) reads \[\begin{align} \label{truerunaway} \partial_t F+v\cdot\nabla_xF-E\cdot\nabla_v F=Q(F,F)+ div_v \bigg(\frac{\Pi(v)}{|v|} \nabla_v F\bigg). \end{align}\tag{2}\]

1.1 Runaway problem↩︎

The system 2 contains all the ingredients to explain the emergence of runaway electrons. Runaway occurs if the kinetic energy of the plasma grows much more rapidly than its thermal energy. In terms of the spatially averaged kinetic and thermal energies, this means \[\begin{align} \label{VT} \frac{|V(t)|^2 }{T(t)} \to \infty,\quadwhere\quad V(t):=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} vF\,dv\,dx,\quad T(t):=\frac{1}{3}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} |v-V(t)|^2 F\,dv\,dx. \end{align}\tag{3}\]

We first give an intuitive explanation of the various terms in equation 2 and their significance for the runaway phenomenon:

  1. The term \(v\cdot\nabla_x\) represents the free transport. The transport on the torus \(\mathbb{T}^3\) together with collisions will drive the system to a spatially homogeneous state.

  2. The term \(E\cdot\nabla_v\) accounts for linear acceleration through the electric field \(E\). This acts as the source of energy the system. This term only changes the kinetic energy, though.

  3. The standard Landau collision operator \(Q\) accounts for the grazing electron-electron collisions. It drives the velocity distribution towards the (local) Maxwellian . It affects neither the linear momentum nor the temperature, hence leaving both kinetic and thermal energy invariant.

  4. The spherical-diffusion term specifically represents electrons scattering off the much heavier ions. This induces a friction that transfers kinetic energy into thermal energy without changing the total energy. Hence, through the combination of the acceleration and spherical, the plasma can be heated which is the goal in many applications. However, the friction force experienced by a particle is quadratically decaying in its velocity. This makes it possible for particles to accelerate (almost) uninhibited once they have reached a critical velocity depending on the magnitude \(|E|\) of the electric field.

In this paper, we tackle the challenge of giving a mathematically rigorous of the runaway phenomenon. We actually prove a very precise description of the phenomenon in a perturbative regime as follows:

I. Runaway does occur. This can be equivalently rephrased in terms of the average velocity \(|V(t)|\) and the average thermal velocity \(\sqrt{T(t)}\) as \[\begin{align} \label{eq:runawayrepeat} \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty } \frac{ |V(t)|}{\sqrt{T(t)}} = \infty. \end{align}\tag{4}\] II. Sharp bounds for the average and thermal velocity. We capture the precise asymptotic growth rate of both \(|V(t)|\) and \(\sqrt{T(t)}\) as \[\begin{align} |V(t)|\sim |E|t, \quad \sqrt{T(t)} \sim \log^\frac{1}{2}(t). \end{align}\] III. Asymptotic profile. Finally, we give a precise description of the asymptotics of the velocity distribution \(f(t)\) as \(t\rightarrow \infty\). To this end, we first recall that we expect the system to become spatially homogeneous as a result of transport and collisions. Therefore, the thermal velocity \(\sqrt{T(t)}\) represents the typical width of the velocity distribution as \(t\rightarrow \infty\) throughout the spatial domain.

We can therefore hope that \(F\) converges to an asymptotic runaway profile \(\Phi(v)\) in the sense that \[\begin{align} \label{scattering:maxwellian} \bigl\| \frac{1}{T(t)^{3/2}}F\big(t,x,\tfrac{v}{T^\frac{1}{2}(t)}\big)- \Phi(v)\bigr\| \longrightarrow 0,\quad\text{as}\quad t\rightarrow \infty, \end{align}\tag{5}\] where \(\Phi\) has the same mass as \(F(t)\).

For a simplified, linear version of 2 some of these questions have been considered in [8], [9]. The authors obtain quantitative asymptotic bounds for a Lorentz gas under sufficiently strong uniform electric field. Our goal is to provide a precise mathematical description of the runaway dynamics for the nonlinear Landau-Coulomb model. We will consider solutions to the equation

\[\label{main} \partial_t F + v\cdot\nabla_x F +E \cdot \nabla_v F = Q(F,F)+ div_v \bigg(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \nabla_v F\bigg),\tag{6}\] where \(F=F(t,x,v)\) is the density distribution function of particles with position \(x\in\mathbb{T}^3\) and velocity \(v\in\mathbb{R}^3\) at time \(t\) and \(E\) is a prescribed electric field of fixed strength (for convenience, we change the sign in front of the electric field to \(+\) here). The first term on the right-hand side of 6 is given by the Landau-Coulomb collision operator \[\label{12d} Q(F,G)(v) =div_v \Big (\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a(v-v_*)\big(F(v_*)\nabla_v G(v)-G(v)\nabla_{v_*}F(v_*)\big)dv_*\Big ),\tag{7}\] with \(a(z)\) defined in 1 .

1.2 Brief review of previous results↩︎

Extensive literature exists on the Landau equation, addressing both well-posedness and regularity. Here we survey only the well-posedness results.

\(\bullet\) For the spatially homogeneous case, global existence for hard potentials and Maxwell molecules was settled in [10][12], while the regularity estimates of [13][15] yield smooth solutions for the moderately soft potential cases. The very-soft-potential case—including the physically central Coulomb interaction—remained open until the recent breakthrough of Guillen and Silvestre [16], who proved that the Fisher information is monotone decreasing and thereby constructed global smooth solutions without any smallness assumption. Building on this insight, the follow-up papers [17][20] have extended well-posedness to critical Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces, respectively. Yet for the multi-species Landau–Coulomb equation the Fisher information is no longer monotone, the authors in [21] therefore build a new Lyapunov functional that decreases in time and recover the global existence.

\(\bullet\) The spatially inhomogeneous Landau equation remains open for general initial data, yet its well-posedness and convergence near equilibrium have attracted intensive recent study; see, e.g., [22][25] working in torus, and [26], [27] where the authors employ semi-group techniques to upgrade the former exponential weights to polynomial ones. Apart from the semi-group approach, an alternative coupled-system decomposition of the solution enables us to work with polynomial weights and will be employed throughout this paper. This line of research goes back to Caflisch [28], who first split the solution as \(g=\sqrt{M_1}g_1+\sqrt{M_2}g_2\) with two distinct Maxwellians. As shown in [29] for the Boltzmann equation, one of the two exponential weights can in fact be reduced to polynomial growth.

In this work we establish global well-posedness for the runaway equation 6 in a perturbation framework and, moreover, characterize its long-time behavior, pinpointing the sharp growth rates of both momentum and temperature.

1.3 Main results↩︎

Now we present the main results, which answer the three questions raised above.

Theorem 1. Consider the runaway problem 6 with initial data \(F_0\) satisfying \(F_0\geq 0\) and \(\|F_0\|_{L^1_{x,v}}=1\). For any \(k> 17\), there exist small constants \(\varepsilon_1>0\) depending only on \(k\) and \(\varepsilon>0\) depending on \(k,V(0),T(0)\), such that if \[\label{small} T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_x(F_0-M_{V(0),T(0)})\big)^2\big\langle T(0)^{-\frac{1}{2}}(v-V(0))\big\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx<\min\{1,T(0)^{22}\}\varepsilon_1,\quad |E|^{-1}<\varepsilon,\qquad{(1)}\] then 6 admits a unique global solution \(F(t)\ge 0\) satisfying the decay estimate \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_x(F(t)-M_{V(t),T(t)})\big)^2\big\langle T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}(v-V(t))\big\rangle^{2(17-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ &&\lesssim\max\Big\{(\ln (3+|E|t))^{\frac{3}{2}}\langle Et\rangle^{-2})^{1-\frac{3}{2k-31}},\Big(\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t\Big)^{-\frac{2(k-17)}{3}}\Big\},\quad t> 1, \end{align}\] where the momentum \(V(t)\), temperature \(T(t)\) are defined in 3 , and the scattering-type Maxwellian \(M_{V(t),T(t)}:=\frac{1}{(2\pi T(t))^{\frac{3}{2}}}\exp\{-\frac{|v-v(t)|^2}{2T(t)}\}\), respectively. Furthermore, \(V(t)\) and \(T(t)\) satisfy \[\begin{align} \label{VTlongtime} \notag&&\frac{T(0)}{2}+\frac{2c_0}{3|E|}(\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t)-\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|))\leq T(t)\leq \frac{3T(0)}{2}+\frac{c_1}{|E|}\ln\Big(1+|E|t\Big),\\ &&|V(t)-V(0)-Et|\leq 80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}+2000/|E|,\quad t\geq 1 \end{align}\qquad{(2)}\] for some constants \(c_0,c_1>0\).

Remark 1. The proof of the theorem requires detailed estimates for the quantities introduced in 3 . It is readily seen that \(\frac{d}{dt}\rho(t)=0\). Without loss of generality, we assume that \(\rho(t)=\rho=1\) and we can formally obtain \[\begin{align} &&\frac{d}{dt}V(t)=E-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(v)}{\langle v\rangle}\nabla_v Fdvdx=E-2\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3}\frac{v}{\langle v\rangle|v|^2}Fdvdx=:E-2R;\label{dtV}\\ &&\frac{d}{dt} T(t)={\frac{2}{3}} \left( E\cdot V-V\cdot \frac{d}{dt} V \right)=\frac{4}{3}R\cdot V.\label{dtT} \end{align}\] {#eq: sublabel=eq:dtV,eq:dtT} Here we employ the Japanese bracket \(\langle v\rangle:= (1+|v|^2)^{1/2}\), together with the identities \(\Pi(v)\,v=0\) and \(\displaystyle \nabla_{\!v}\!\cdot\!\Bigl(\frac{\Pi(v)}{\langle v\rangle}\Bigr)=-2\,\frac{v}{\langle v\rangle\,|v|^{2}}\).

1.4 Strategy of the paper↩︎

Let us provide a brief overview of the key strategies employed in our proof.

Step 1. Reduction of the problem. We reduce the original Cauchy problem of 6 to an equivalent coupled system \((G(t,x,v), T(t), V(t))\), where \(G\) is the profile of the distribution function. On one hand, this transformation enables us not only to focus on the evolution of bulk velocity and temperature to study runaway acceleration but also to analyze the asymptotic profile to determine the long-time dynamics. On the other hand, the transformation reduces the scattering-type, time-varying Maxwellian to a centered, normalized Maxwellian, thereby preserving the dissipative structure — in particular, the coercivity estimate of the collision operator, which is well known to rely on the mass and energy of the Maxwellian. This plays an essential role in the perturbative framework. We finally emphasize that the transformation relies heavily on the Galilean invariance of the collision operator and we refer readers to Proposition 1 for detailed proof.

Step 2. Local Well-Posedness. We begin by analyzing a linearized equation, whose well-posedness follows from the dissipative structure of the linearized operator. By transforming the equation back to the original coordinate frame and applying a standard energy argument, we prove that the solutions to this linearized equation are nonnegative. Next, we establish local well-posedness for the full system via a standard iterative scheme, treating \((g,V,T)\) as a fully coupled system; the Aubin–Lions Lemma is employed to pass to the limit in the nonlinear term. Uniqueness is then shown by returning to the original variables and using an energy argument. The resulting local well-posedness result, stated in Theorem 3, shows in particular that, provided the electric field is sufficiently strong, the length of the local-existence interval depends only on the smallness of \(g_0\) and on the behavior of \(T\) and \(V\).

Step 3. Global Well-Posedness. We reduce the global well-posedness problem to proving three key properties: \(g\) remains small, \(T\) grows at most logarithmically, and \(V\) grows linearly in time. In particular, the growth estimates for \(T\) and \(V\) follow directly from the smallness of \(g\). The propagation of smallness of \(g\), however, is more subtle:

- In the perturbation framework, the standard route to global well-posedness combines symmetric linearization with micro-macro decomposition (see for example [22], [25]); the former exploits the spectral gap of the linearized collision operator to yield dissipation of the microscopic part in an exponentially weighted space, while the latter uses the transport operator to control the macroscopic part by the microscopic one, see ?? and ?? , respectively. For the present model, however, exponential weights are no longer admissible, because the spherical-diffusion operator in 13 raises the weight by two orders. Indeed, \[\begin{align} &\Big(\nabla_v \cdot \bigg(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle} \nabla_v (\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g)\bigg), \mu^{-\frac{1}{2}} g\Big)_{L^2_v} \\ &= -\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v g,\nabla_v g\Big)_{L^2_v} + \frac{1}{4}\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle} v g, v g\Big)_{L^2_v}. \end{align}\] The second term on the right-hand side does not appear amenable to control. A natural alternative is to work in polynomially weighted spaces using semigroup techniques, but the time-dependent coefficients introduced by the new coordinates complicate the semigroup approach.

- We bypass this obstacle by exploiting the coupled system decomposition mentioned in [28], which still allows us to work entirely within polynomially weighted spaces. More precisely, we decompose \(g = g_1 + \mu^{1/2} g_2\) by writing a suitably coupled system for \((g_1, g_2)\) that treats the terms containing \(\mu^{1/2} g_2\) in the spherical-diffusion operator as a remainder in the equation for \(g_1\). This allows us to control this term by the coercivity estimate of the collision operator (see Section 7 and Theorem 4). A similar strategy has been used for a two-scale solution of the Landau equation in [30].

Step 4. Continuation Argument. We complete the proof of the main result by combining the previous results with a standard continuation argument. Let \(\mathbf{E}\) denote a suitable energy and \(\mathbf{D}\) the corresponding dissipation. We obtain an energy inequality of the form (see 109 for the precise version) \[\mathbf{E}'(t) + \bigl(1 - \mathbf{E}^{1/2} - \mathbf{E}\bigr)\mathbf{D}(t) \lesssim (1 + |E| t)^{-2}, \qquad \label{energy46intro}\tag{8}\] where \(E\) denotes the electric field strength. Therefore, the smallness of the initial data \(\mathbf{E}(0)\) together with a sufficiently strong electric field guarantees the global existence of the solution (see ?? ).

We close this section with two final points. First, because the coefficients of the transformed equation 13 contain negative powers of \(T(t)\), we need to keep \(T(t)\) bounded away from zero. Second, the energy inequality 8 contains a dissipation term whose coefficient is proportional to \(T'(t)\); closing the estimate therefore requires \(T'(t) \geq 0\). Thanks to the detailed growth estimates for \(T\) in Section 6, both requirements are guaranteed by choosing a sufficiently strong electric field (see the proof of Lemma 11 and Theorem 4 for details).

1.5 Organization of the paper↩︎

The rest of this paper is organised as follows.

In Section 2, we introduce suitable coordinates and transformations that convert the scattering-type Maxwellian into the familiar global Maxwellian and rewrite the equation as a perturbation system around this profile. Section 3 introduces the notation used throughout the paper, with a focus on polynomially weighted function spaces that form the analytical framework for the subsequent estimates. Section 4 provides basic estimates for the Landau collision operator. In Section 5, we establish the local well-posedness and non-negativity of the solution. Section 6 derives growth estimates for the macroscopic quantities. Section 7 addresses the core challenge of propagating the smallness of \(g\). Finally, Section 8 presents the proof of global well-posedness and decay estimates.

2 Reformulation of the equation as a perturbation of a standard Maxwellian↩︎

We dedicate this section to employing a change of coordinates to convert the scattering-type Maxwellian into the normalized Maxwellian. Meanwhile, we also need to monitor the changes in the equation. The key point utilized here is the Galilean invariance of the collision operator, which shows how translation and scaling act on \({Q}\). The following lemma can be verified directly by using the definition of the Landau operator 7 .

Lemma 1. For smooth functions \(g = g(v)\) and \(h = h(v)\).

\(\bullet\) Let \(u \in \mathbb{R}^3\) and \(g_1(v) = g(v + u), h_1(v) = h(v + u)\), then \[{Q}(g, h)(v + u) = {Q}(g_1, h_1)(v).\]

\(\bullet\) Let \(r \in \mathbb{R}\) and \(g_2(v) = g(rv), h_2(v) = h(rv)\), then \[{Q}(g, h)(rv) = {Q}(g_2, h_2)(v).\]

Now recall the scattering-type Maxwellian and its normalized version \[\begin{align} M_{V(t),T(t)}{(v)}=\frac{1}{(2\pi T(t))^{\frac{3}{2}}}\exp\Big\{-\frac{|v-V(t)|^2}{2T(t)}\Big\},\quad \mu=e^{-|v|^2/2}/(2\pi)^{\frac{3}{2}}. \end{align}\] We introduce \[\begin{align} \label{F1} &&\notag F_1(t,x,v)=T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}F(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v),\\ &&M_1(t,x,v)=T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}M_{V(t),T(t)}(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)=e^{-|v|^2/2}/(2\pi)^{\frac{3}{2}}=\mu. \end{align}\tag{9}\] Then by derivative rules, we have \[\begin{align} &&\notag\partial_t F_1(t,x,v)=\frac{3}{2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}T'(t)F(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)+T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}\partial_tF(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)\\ &&+T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}\big(V'(t)+\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}T'(t)v\big)\cdot\nabla_v F(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v),\\ &&\nabla_vF_1(t,x,v)=T(t)^2\nabla_v F(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v),\quad \nabla_xF_1(t,x,v)=T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}\nabla_xF(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v), \end{align}\] which implies that \[\begin{align} &&\nabla_vF(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)=T(t)^{-2}\nabla_v F_1(t,x,v),\quad \nabla_xF(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\nabla_xF_1(t,x,v),\\ &&\partial_tF(t,x,V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v) =T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\partial_tF_1(t,x,v) -\frac{3}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{5}{2}}T'(t)F_1(t,x,v)\\ &&-T(t)^{-2}(V'(t)+\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}T'(t)v)\cdot\nabla_vF_1(t,x,v). \end{align}\] Substituting it into 6 and applying Lemma 1 and ?? yields \[\begin{align} \label{equF1} \notag&&\partial_tF_1(t,x,v)+\big(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\big)\cdot\nabla_xF_1(t,x,v)+\big(-\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t)\big)\cdot\nabla_v F_1(t,x,v)\\ \notag&=&T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(F_1,F_1)(t,x,v)+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)F_1(t,x,v)+T(t)^{-1}div_v \Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v F_1\Big)(t,x,v),\\ && \end{align}\tag{10}\] where the orthogonal projection \[\begin{align} \Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)=\mathbf{I}-\frac{(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)\otimes (V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{|(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)|^2}. \end{align}\]

Next, we set \[\begin{align} \label{F2} F_2(t,x,v)=F_1(t,x+H(t),v) \quad M_2(t,x,v)=M_1(t,x+H(t),v)=\mu\quadwith\quad H(t):=\int_0^t V(\tau)d\tau, \end{align}\tag{11}\] then it holds that \[\begin{align} &&\partial_tF_2(t,x,v)=\partial_t F_1(t,x+H(t),v)+V(t)\cdot\nabla_xF_1(t,x+H(t),v),\\ &&\nabla_xF_2(t,x,v)=\nabla_x F_1(t,x+H(t),v),\quad \nabla_vF_2(t,x,v)=\nabla_v F_1(t,x+H(t),v), \end{align}\] which implies \[\begin{align} &&\partial_tF_1(t,x+H(t),v)=\partial_t F_2(t,x,v)-V(t)\cdot\nabla_xF_2(t,x,v),\\ &&\nabla_x F_1(t,x+H(t),v)=\nabla_xF_2(t,x,v),\quad\nabla_v F_1(t,x+H(t),v)= \nabla_vF_2(t,x,v). \end{align}\] Substituting it into 10 , we have that \[\begin{align} &&\partial_tF_2(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_xF_2(t,x,v)+\big(-\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t)\big)\cdot\nabla_v F_2(t,x,v)\\ \notag&=&T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(F_2,F_2)(t,x,v)+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)F_2(t,x,v)+T(t)^{-1}div\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v F_2\Big)(t,x,v). \end{align}\] Moreover, due to 3 , change of variables 9 and 11 , we have \[\begin{align} &&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}F_2(t,x,v)(1,v,|v|^2)dvdx=T(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}F(t,x+H(t),V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)(1,v,|v|^2)dvdx\\ &=&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}F(t,x,v)(1,T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}(v-V(t)),T(t)^{-1}|v-V(t)|^2)dvdx=(1,0,3). \end{align}\]

By introducing the new variable \(G\) to replace \(F_2\), namely \[\begin{align} \label{changeofvariable} G(t,x,v)=T(t)^{3/2}F\bigl(t,x+H(t),V(t)+T(t)^{1/2}v\bigr),\quad H(t)=\int_0^t V(\tau)\,d\tau, \end{align}\tag{12}\] and summarizing the preceding derivation together with ?? , ?? , we obtain the following proposition:

Proposition 1. The Cauchy problem 6 with initial data \(F_0\) is equivalent to the joint Cauchy problem for \((G(t,x,v),V(t),T(t))\) as follows: \[\begin{align} \label{eqG} \left\{\begin{aligned} &\partial_tG(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_xG(t,x,v)+\big(-\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t)\big)\cdot\nabla_v G(t,x,v) =T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(G,G)(t,x,v)\\ &+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)G(t,x,v)+T(t)^{-1}\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v G\Big)(t,x,v),\\ &V'(t)=E-2R(t),\quad T'(t)=\frac{4}{3}V(t)\cdot R(t),\\& R(t)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2 }G(t,x,v)dxdv \end{aligned}\right. \end{align}\qquad{(3)}\] with initial data \[\begin{align} (G_0(x,v),V(0),T(0))=\Big(T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}F_0(x,V(0)+T(0)^{\frac{1}{2}}v),~\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}vF_0(x,v)dvdx,~\frac{1}{3}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|v-V(0)|^2F_0(x,v)dvdx\Big). \end{align}\] Moreover, \(G\) satisfies the conservation laws \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} G(t,x,v)(1,v,|v|^2)dvdx=(1,0,3)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\mu(1,v,|v|^2)dvdx. \end{align}\]

Thanks to Proposition 1, the stability analysis of \(M_{V(t),T(t)}\) with respect to 6 is thereby reduced to the stability of \(\mu\) with respect to ?? . Let \(G:=\mu+g\) and plug it into ?? , we obtain the following equation of \(g\): \[\label{equg} \begin{align} &\partial_t g(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g(t,x,v)+(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot\nabla_v g(t,x,v)\\ =& T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}L(g)+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(g,g)(t,x,v)+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) g(t,x,v)+T(t)^{-1}div\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v g\Big)\\ &-(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot\nabla_v \mu+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) \mu+T(t)^{-1}div\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big), \end{align}\tag{13}\] where we used \(Q(\mu,\mu) = 0\) and the linear Landau operator is defined by \[\begin{align} \label{linearoperator} L(g):=Q(\mu,g)+Q(g,\mu). \end{align}\tag{14}\] Moreover, the conservation laws for the function \(g\) are \[\begin{align} \label{conforg} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} g(t,x,v)(1,v,|v|^2)dvdx=0. \end{align}\tag{15}\] Therefore, to establish Theorem 1, it suffices to verify the following theorem for the transformed system.

Theorem 2. Consider the joint Cauchy problem 13 , ?? and ?? with initial data \((g_0=G_0-\mu,V(0),T(0))\in X_k\times\mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R}^+,k>17\) satisfying \(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(1,v,|v|^2)\,g_0\,dvdx=0\) and \(\mu+g_0\ge 0\). There exist small constants \(\varepsilon_1>0\) depending only on \(k\) and \(\varepsilon>0\) depending on \(k, V(0),T(0)\), such that if \[\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}<\min\{1,T(0)^{22}\}\varepsilon_1,\quadand\quad |E|^{-1}<\varepsilon,\] then 13 admits a unique global solution \(g\) satisfying \(\mu+g(t)\ge 0\) for any \(t\geq0\) and the decay estimate \[\begin{align} \|g(t)\|^2_{X_{17}}\lesssim\max\Big\{(\ln (3+|E|t))^{\frac{3}{2}}\langle Et\rangle^{-2})^{1-\frac{3}{2k-31}},\Big(\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t\Big)^{-\frac{2(k-17)}{3}}\Big\},\quad t>1. \end{align}\] Moreover, the evolution of \((V(t),T(t))\) satisfies ?? .

3 Notation and function spaces↩︎

We list notations and function spaces in the below.

3.1 Notation↩︎

We use the notation \(a\lesssim b\) (\(a\gtrsim b\)) and \(a\lesssim_c b ~(a\gtrsim_c b)\) to indicate that there is a constant \(C\) which is uniform or depends on parameter \(c\) and may be different on different lines, such that \(a\leq Cb(a\geq Cb)\). We use the notation \(a\sim b\) (\(a\sim_c b\)) whenever \(a\lesssim b\) and \(b\lesssim a\) (\(a\lesssim_c b\) and \(a\gtrsim_cb\)). Denote \(C_{a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n}\) (or \(C(a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n)\)) by a constant depending on parameters \(a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n\). Moreover, parameter \(\varepsilon\) is used to represent different positive numbers much less than 1 and determined in different cases. \(\mathbf{1}_\Omega\) is the characteristic function of the set \(\Omega\). We use \((\cdot,\cdot)_{L^2_v}\), and \((\cdot,\cdot)_{L^2_{x, v}}\) to denote the inner product in \(L^2_{\mathbb{R}^3}\) and \(L^2_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\), respectively. We also use \(\mathbf{I}\) to represent the unit matrix or identity operator.

3.2 Function spaces↩︎

We give several definitions to spaces involving different variables.

\((1)\) Function spaces in \(v\) variable. Let \(f(v)\) be a function of the variable \(v \in \mathbb{R}^3\). For any \(p\in[1,\infty),q\in\mathbb{R}\), the \(L^p_q\) norm is defined by \[\begin{align} \|f\|^p_{L^p_q}=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|f(v)|^p\langle v\rangle^{pq}dv. \end{align}\] For \(m,l\in\mathbb{R}\), we define the weighted Sobolev space \(H_l^m\) as follows: \[\begin{align} H^m_l:=\Big\{f(v)|\|f\|_{ H^{m}_l}=\|\langle D\rangle^m\langle\cdot\rangle^l f\|_{L^2}<+\infty\Big\}, \end{align}\] where \(a(D)\) is a pseudo-differential operator with the symbol \(a(\xi)\) and is defined as \[\begin{align} (a(D)f)(x):=\frac{1}{(2\pi)^3}\int_{\mathbb{R}^6} e^{i(x-y)\xi} a(\xi)f(y)dyd\xi. \end{align}\] We remark that \(\|\langle D\rangle^m\langle\cdot\rangle^lf\|_{L^2}\sim_{m,l} \|\langle\cdot\rangle^l\langle D\rangle^mf\|_{L^2}\)(see Lemma 5.2 in [31].) When \(m\in\mathbb{N}\), it is equivalent that \[\begin{align} \label{hms}H^{m}_l=\Big\{f(v)|\|f\|^2_{ H^{m}_l}=\sum_{|\alpha|\leq m}\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\langle v\rangle^{l}\partial^\alpha_vf|^2dv<+\infty\Big\}. \end{align}\tag{16}\] Particularly, we write \(\|f\|_{L^2_l}:=\|f\|_{H^0_{l}},\|f\|_{H^m_v}:=\|f\|_{H^m_0}\) and \(\|f\|_{L^2_v}:=\|f\|_{H^0_0}\).

\((2)\) Function spaces in \(x,v\) variables. Let \(f(x,v)\) be a function of the variable \((x,v) \in \mathbb{T}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3\). The differential operator on \(x\), \(\langle D_x\rangle^r,r\in\mathbb{R}\) is defined by \[\begin{align} \langle D_x\rangle^r f:=\sum_{q\in\mathbb{Z}^3}\langle q\rangle^r\mathcal{F}_x(f)(q)e^{2\pi iq\cdot x}, \end{align}\] where \(\mathcal{F}_x\) is the Fourier transform w.r.t variable \(x\). For \(m,r,l\in\mathbb{R}\), we define the weighted Sobolev space \(H^r_xH_l^m\) as follows: \[\begin{align} \label{hrhms}H^r_xH^{m}_l:=\Big\{f(x,v)|\|f\|^2_{ H^r_xH^{m}_l}=\sum_{q\in\mathbb{Z}^3}\langle q\rangle^{2r}\|\mathcal{F}_x(f)(q)\|^2_{H^m_l}<+\infty\Big\}. \end{align}\tag{17}\] When \(r\in \mathbb{N}\), it is equivalent that \[\begin{align} H^r_xH^{m}_l:=\Big\{f(x,v)|\|f\|^2_{ H^r_xH^{m}_l}=\sum_{|\alpha|\leq r}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|^2_{H^m_l}<+\infty\Big\}. \end{align}\] Particularly, we write \(\|f\|_{L^2_xH^m_l}=\|f\|_{H^0_xH^m_l},\|f\|^2_{L^2_{x,v}}:=\|f\|_{H^0_xH^0_0}\).

\((3)\) Function spaces in \(t,x,v\) variables. Let \(f=f(t,x,v)\) and \(X\) be a function space in \(x,v\) variables. Then \(L^p([0,T],X)\) and \(L^\infty([0,T],X)\) are defined as follows: \[L^p([0,T],X):=\bigg\{f(t,x,v)\big|\|f\|^p_{ L^p([0,T],X)}=\int_0^T\|f(t)\|^p_{X}dt<+\infty\bigg\},\quad 1\leq p<\infty,\] \[L^\infty([0,T],X):=\Big\{f(t,x,v)|\|f\|_{ L^\infty([0,T],X)}=\mathrm{esssup}_{t\in [0,T]}\|f(t)\|_{X}<+\infty\Big\}.\]

\((4)\) Solution spaces. We shall prove the global well-posedness in weighted Sobolev spaces. For \(k\in\mathbb{\mathbb{R}}^+\) and a function \(f(v)\), we define the dissipation norms in \(v\in\mathbb{R}^3\) as \[\begin{align} \label{dissipationnorm} \|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}:=\|f\|^2_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}}f\|^2_{L^2_{k-\frac{3}{2}}},\quad \|f\|^2_{D_2(k)}:=\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}+\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-\frac{1}{2}}}, \end{align}\tag{18}\] where \(\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2}\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator. For a function \(f(x,v)\), we further introduce the energy functional and its associated dissipation functional as follows. \[\begin{align} \label{functional} &&\|f\|^2_{X_k}:=\|f\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_k}+\sum_{|\alpha|=2}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}},\quad k\geq 15;\\ \notag&&\|f\|^2_{Y_k}:=\|f\|^2_{L^2_xD_1(k)}+\sum_{|\alpha|=2}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|^2_{L^2_xD_1(k-4|\alpha|)},\quad k\geq 15;\\ \notag&& \|g\|^2_{\mathcal{E}_k}:=\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\partial^\alpha_x g\|^2_{L^2_{x}L^2_k},\quad \|g\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_k}:=\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\partial^\alpha_xg\|^2_{L^2_xD_2(k)},~~k\geq0. \end{align}\tag{19}\]

4 Landau operator and auxiliary tools↩︎

In this section, we will give various estimates for the Landau collision operator, including the upper and lower bounds, which will be frequently utilized later on. We begin by introducing the quantities \[\begin{align} \label{aijbidelta} b_i(z)=\sum_{j=1}^3\partial_ja_{ij}(z)=-2z_i|z|^{-3},\quad c(z)=\sum_{i,j=1}^3\partial_{ij}a_{ij}(z)=-8\pi\delta_0(z). \end{align}\tag{20}\] By Proposition 2.3 and Proposition 2.4 in [32], the matrix \(a*\mu\) has a simple eigenvalue \(l_1(v)\sim \langle v\rangle^{-3}\) associated with the the eigenvector \(v\) and a double eigenvalue \(l_2(v)\sim \langle v\rangle^{-1}\) associated with eigenspace \(v^\perp\), where \(l_1(v),l_2(v)\) are defined as follows: \[\label{eigenvalueamu} \begin{align} l_1(v)&=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} \Big(1-\big(\frac{v}{|v|}\cdot\frac{v_*}{|v_*|}\big)\Big)|v_*|^{-1}\mu(v-v_*)dv_*\sim \langle v\rangle^{-3},\\ l_2(v)&=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} \Big(1-\frac{1}{2}\big(\frac{v}{|v|}\times\frac{v_*}{|v_*|}\big)\Big)|v_*|^{-1}\mu(v-v_*)dv_*\sim \langle v\rangle^{-1}. \end{align}\tag{21}\] Moreover, one can easily derive from above that \[\label{abv} \sum_{i,j=1}^3a_{ij}*\mu v_iv_j=l_1(v) |v|^2,\quad \sum_{j=1}^3b_j*\mu v_j=-l_1(v) |v|^2.\tag{22}\]

Lemma 2. Recall the dissipation norm \(D_1\) in 18 . For functions \(g,h\) and \(f\), it holds that \[\label{upperQ1} \begin{align} |(Q(g, h),f)_{L^2_v}| \lesssim\|g\|_{L^2_5}\|h\|_{D_1(0)}\|f\|_{D_1(0)} +\|g\|_{L^2_5}\|h \|_{H^{a_1}_{\omega_1}}\|f \|_{H^{a_2}_{\omega_2}}, \end{align}\qquad{(4)}\] where \(a_1,a_2\geq0,\omega_1,\omega_2\in[-2,0]\) satisfy that \(a_1+a_2=1\) and \(\omega_1+\omega_2=-2\). Moreover, we also have \[\begin{align} \label{upperQ2} |(Q(g, h),f)_{L^2_v}| \lesssim\|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|f\|_{H^2_{-\omega}} \end{align}\qquad{(5)}\] for any \(\omega\in \mathbb{R}\).

The first upper bound ?? can be obtained by Proposition 2.2 in [20]. To prove ?? , we first observe that \[\begin{align} (Q(g,h),f)_{L^2_v}&=-\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*g\,\partial_ih\,\partial_jf\,dv+\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*g\,h\,\partial_if\,dv\\ &=\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*g\,h\,\partial_{ij}f\,dv+2\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*g\,h\,\partial_if\,dv:=Q_1+Q_2. \end{align}\] Since \(a(z)\lesssim|z|^{-1}\), the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality gives \[\begin{align} |Q_1|&\lesssim&\int_{|v-v_*|\le 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|}|g(v_*)\langle v\rangle^\omega h\langle v\rangle^{-\omega}\nabla^2f|\,dv_*dv\\ &&+\int_{|v-v_*|>1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|}|g(v_*)\langle v\rangle^\omega h\langle v\rangle^{-\omega}\nabla^2f|\,dv_*dv\\ &\lesssim& \|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|\nabla^2f\|_{L^2_{-\omega}}\lesssim \|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|f\|_{H^2_{-\omega}}. \end{align}\]

For \(Q_2\), since \(b(z)\lesssim |z|^{-2}\), we have \[\begin{align} |Q_2|&\lesssim& \int_{|v-v_*|\le 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|^2}|g(v_*)\langle v\rangle^\omega h(v)\langle v\rangle^{-\omega}\nabla f|\,dv_*dv\\ &&+\int_{|v-v_*|>1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|^2}|g(v_*)\langle v\rangle^\omega h(v)\langle v\rangle^{-\omega}\nabla f|\,dv_*dv\\ &\lesssim& \|g\|_{L^2}\|\langle v\rangle^\omega h\langle v\rangle^{-\omega}\nabla f\|_{L^{6/5}}+\|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|\nabla f\|_{L^2_{-\omega}}\\ &\lesssim& \|g\|_{L^2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|\nabla f\|_{L^3_{-\omega}}+\|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|\nabla f\|_{L^2_{-\omega}}\\ &\lesssim &\|g\|_{L^2_2}\|h\|_{L^2_\omega}\|f\|_{H^{3/2}_{-\omega}}. \end{align}\] In the three inequalities above, we have used the Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality, Hölder inequality \(\|fg\|_{L^{6/5}}\le \|f\|_{L^2}\|g\|_{L^3}\), and the Sobolev embedding \(H^{1/2}\hookrightarrow L^3\). Combining the estimates for \(Q_1\) and \(Q_2\) then yields ?? .

We complete the proof of this lemma.

Lemma 3. For any integer \(k\geq 5\) and functions \(g,h,f\), we have \[\begin{align} &\big(Q(\mu,f), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\leq-\lambda_0\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}+C_k\|f\|^2_{L^2_v},\quad \big|\big(Q(g,\mu), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\leq C_k \|g\|_{L^2_{3}}\|f\|_{L^2_v};\label{fmuf}\\ &\big|\big(Q(g,f), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\leq C_k\|g\|_{L^2_{7}}\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)},~ \big|\big(Q(g,h),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\leq C_k\|g\|_{L^2_7}\|h\|_{D_1(k+1)}\|f\|_{D_1(k)}\label{ghf} \end{align}\] {#eq: sublabel=eq:fmuf,eq:ghf} with some constants \(\lambda_0>0\) and \(C_k>0\). In general, suppose the nonnegative function \(G\) satisfies \(\|G\|_{L^1_v}>\delta, \|G\|_{L^2_5}<\lambda\), then \[\begin{align} \label{general} \big(Q(G,f), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\leq-C_1\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}+C_2\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-\frac{1}{2}}}, \end{align}\qquad{(6)}\] where the constant \(C_1,C_2\) depend on \(\delta, \lambda\) and \(k\).

We remark that ?? was established in Lemma 2.12 of [33], while the first inequality in ?? was proved in Lemma 2.3 of [26]. To establish the second inequality ?? , we rewrite it as \[\begin{align} &&\big(Q(g,\mu), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}=-\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*g\partial_i\mu \partial_j(f\langle v\rangle^{2k})dv+\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*g\mu\partial_i(f\langle v\rangle^{2k})dv. \end{align}\] By integration by parts and 20 , we obtain that \[\begin{align} &&\big(Q(g,\mu), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}=\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*g\partial_i\mu f\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv+\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*g\partial_{ij}\mu f\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv+8\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu gf\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv \nonumber\\ &&-\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*g\partial_i\mu f\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv=\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*g\partial_{ij}\mu f\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv+8\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu gf\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv. \label{Q46ac} \end{align}\tag{23}\] Since \(|a(z)|\lesssim|z|^{-1}\), we have \[\begin{align} &&\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|a_{ij}*g\partial_{ij}\mu f\langle v\rangle^{2k}|dv+8\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu |gf|\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv\\ &\leq& C_k \int_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|}|g(v_*)f(v)\langle v\rangle^{-2}|dv_*dv+C_k\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|gf| dv\leq C_k\|g\|_{L^2_3}\|f\|_{L^2_v}. \end{align}\] We get the desired result.

Finally, we give the proof for ?? . we rewrite it as \[\begin{align} &&\big(Q(G,f), f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}=-\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*G\partial_if \partial_j(f\langle v\rangle^{2k})dv+\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*Gf\partial_i(f\langle v\rangle^{2k})dv\\ &&=-\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*G\partial_i(f\langle v\rangle^k) \partial_j(f\langle v\rangle^{k})dv-k^2\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}a_{ij}*Gf^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-4}v_iv_jdv\\ &&+4\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}G f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv+k\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}b_i*Gf^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-2}v_idv:=G_1+G_2+G_3+G_4. \end{align}\]

For \(G_1\), observing that \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{R}^3}G|\log G| dv&=&\int_{G>1}G\log G dv+\int_{e^{-|v|^2}<G\leq1}G|\log G| dv+\int_{G\leq e^{-|v|^2}}G|\log G| dv\\ &\lesssim& \int_{\mathbb{R}^3}G^2dv+\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} G|v|^2 dv+\int_{G \leq e^{-|v|^2}}G^{\frac{1}{2}}dv\lesssim C_\lambda, \end{align}\] since \(\|G\|_{L^2_5}<\lambda\). Then by Proposition 2.1 in [20], we have \(G_1\leq -C_1\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}\) with \(C_1\) depending on \(\delta\) and \(\lambda\). For \(G_2\), since \(a(z)\lesssim|z|^{-1}\), we have \[\begin{align} |G_2|&\leq& C_k \Big(\int_{|v-v_*|\leq 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|}G(v_*)f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-2}dv_*dv+\int_{|v-v_*|> 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|}G(v_*)f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-2}dv_*dv\Big)\\ &\leq& C_k\|G\|_{L^2_5}\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-1}}. \end{align}\] For \(G_3\), we have \[\begin{align} |G_3|\leq C_k\|G\|_{L^2_5}\|f\|^2_{L^4_{k-2}}\leq C_k\|G\|_{L^2_5}\|f\|^2_{H^{3/4}_{k-2}}\leq \varepsilon\|f\|^2_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}+C_\varepsilon\|G\|^4_{L^2_5}\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-2}},\quad \forall \varepsilon>0. \end{align}\] In the three inequalities above, we have used Hölder inequality, Sobolev embedding \(H^{3/4}_{k-2}\hookrightarrow L^4_{k-2}\), the interpolation inequality and Young’s inequality \(\|f\|_{H^{3/4}_{k-4}}\lesssim\|f\|^{3/4}_{H^{1}_{k-4}}\|f\|^{1/4}_{L^{2}_{k-4}}\lesssim\varepsilon\|f\|_{H^{1}_{k-4}}+C_\varepsilon\|f\|_{L^{2}_{k-4}}\), respectively. For \(G_4\), noticing that \(b(z)\lesssim|z|^{-2}\), then by Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, we have \[\begin{align} |G_4|&\lesssim& C_k \Big(\int_{|v-v_*|\leq 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|^2}G(v_*)f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-1}dv_*dv+\int_{|v-v_*|> 1}\frac{1}{|v-v_*|^2}G(v_*)f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k-1}dv_*dv\Big)\\ &\lesssim&C_k\|G\|_{L^2_5}(\|f\|^2_{L^{12/5}_{k-2}}+\|f\|^2_{k-\frac{1}{2}})\lesssim\varepsilon\|f\|^2_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}+C_{k,\varepsilon}(1+\|G\|^4_{L^2_5})\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-\frac{1}{2}}}, \end{align}\] where we also use interpolation and the fact \(\langle v\rangle\sim \langle v_*\rangle\) when \(|v-v_*|\leq 1\).

Combining these estimates and noticing that \(\|f\|_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}\leq \|f\|_{D_1(k)}\), we can get the desired result by choosing properly small \(\varepsilon>0\).

We complete the proof of the lemma.

Lemma 4. In contrast to the linear Landau operator 14 , we define the linearized Landau operator as \[\begin{align} \label{linearized} {\mathcal{L}}(f):=\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\big(Q(\mu,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f)+Q(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f,\mu)\big)\quadand\quad \Gamma(g,h):=\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}Q(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}} {\color{darkblue}{h}}). \end{align}\qquad{(7)}\] Recall the dissipation norm \(D_2\) in 18 . For any integer \(k\geq0\) and functions \(g,h,f\), we have \[\begin{align} &&\big({\mathcal{L}}(f),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\leq-\lambda_0\|f\|^2_{D_2(k)}+C_k\|f\|^2_{L^2_v}\label{cLf},\\ &&\big|\big(\Gamma(g,h),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\leq C_k \|g\|_{L^2_v}\|h\|_{D_2(k)}\|f\|_{D_2(k)}\label{Gaghf} \end{align}\] {#eq: sublabel=eq:cLf,eq:Gaghf} with some constants \(\lambda_0>0\) and \(C_k>0\). It also holds that \[\begin{align} \label{spectralgap} \big({\mathcal{L}}(f),f\big)_{L^2_v}\leq-\lambda_0\|(\mathbf{I-P})f\|^2_{D_2(0)}, \end{align}\qquad{(8)}\] where the macroscopic projection \(\mathbf{P}\) is given by \[\begin{align} \label{mP} \mathbf{P}f=[a^f+b^f\cdot v+c^f(|v|^2-3)]\mu^{\frac{1}{2}} \end{align}\qquad{(9)}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{afbfcf} a^f=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}f(v)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv,~b^f=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}f(v)v\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv\quadand\quad c^f=\frac{1}{6}\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}f(v)(|v|^2-3)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv. \end{align}\qquad{(10)}\]

From (2.6) in [26], we have \[\begin{align} \big({\mathcal{L}}(f),f\big)_{L^2_v}\lesssim-\|\langle v\rangle^{-\frac{1}{2}}(\mathbf{I-P})f\|^2_{L^2_v}-\|\langle v\rangle^{-\frac{3}{2}}\tilde{\nabla}_v (\mathbf{I-P})f\|^2_{L^2_v}, \end{align}\] where the anisotropic gradient \(\tilde{\nabla}_v f\) of a function \(f\) defined by \[\begin{align} \tilde{\nabla}_v f=P_v\nabla_v f+\langle v\rangle(\mathbf{I}-P_v)\nabla_v f \end{align}\] with the projection operator \(P_v\) on the \(v-\)direction defined by \(P_v\xi=\Big(\xi\cdot \frac{v}{|v|}\Big)\frac{v}{|v|},\forall \xi\in \mathbb{R}^3.\) A direct calculation yields \[\begin{align} \|\langle v\rangle^{-\frac{3}{2}}\tilde{\nabla}_v f\|^2_{L^2_v}&\gtrsim& \|\nabla_v f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|(\mathbf{I}-P_v)\nabla_v f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{1}{2}}}\\ &\gtrsim&\|\nabla_v f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|v\times \nabla_v f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}\gtrsim\|\nabla_v f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}} f\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}. \end{align}\] Thus ?? holds true.

Next, we provide the proofs of ?? and ?? separately. By the definition of linearized Landau operator \({\mathcal{L}}\), we have that \[\begin{align} \big({\mathcal{L}}(f),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}=\big(Q(\mu,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f),f\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}+\big(Q(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f,\mu),f\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}:={\mathcal{L}}_1+{\mathcal{L}}_2. \end{align}\]

For \({\mathcal{L}}_2\), by the same argument used in the proof of the second inequality in ?? , we obtain \[\begin{align} \label{cL2} {\mathcal{L}}_2\leq C_k\|f\|^2_{L^2_v}. \end{align}\tag{24}\]

For \({\mathcal{L}}_1\), we rewrite much as in 23 as \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{L}}_1=\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(a_{ij}*\mu)\partial_{ij}(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}f) f\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv+8\pi \int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv. \end{align}\] Let \(g=f\langle v\rangle^k\), integration by parts yields that \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{L}}_1&=&-\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(a_{ij}*\mu)\partial_ig\partial_jgdv+\Big(8\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu g^2dv-\sum_{j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(b_j*\mu)g\partial_j gdv\Big)\\ &&-\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\sum_{i,j=1}^3(a_{ij}*\mu)\partial_i(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{-k})\partial_j(\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k)+\sum_{i=1}^3(b_i*\mu)\partial_i(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{-k})\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\Big)g^2dv\\ &:=&{\mathcal{L}}_{1,1}+{\mathcal{L}}_{1,2}+{\mathcal{L}}_{1,3}. \end{align}\] For \({\mathcal{L}}_{1,1}\), from the estimate for \(G_1\) in Lemma 3, there exists a constant \(\lambda_0>0\) such that \[\begin{align} \label{cL11} {\mathcal{L}}_{1,1}\leq -\lambda_0 (\|\nabla g\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}}g\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}). \end{align}\tag{25}\] For \({\mathcal{L}}_{1,2}\) and \({\mathcal{L}}_{1,3}\), thanks to 20 and integration by parts, we have \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{L}}_{1,2}=8\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu g^2dv+\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(c*\mu) g^2dv=4\pi\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\mu g^2 dv. \end{align}\] By 22 , one may check that \[\begin{align} \label{cL1213} \notag{\mathcal{L}}_{1,2}+{\mathcal{L}}_{1,3}&=&\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\sum_{i,j=1}^3(a_{ij}*\mu)v_iv_j(\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2})^2+\sum_{i=1}^3(b_i*\mu)v_i(\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2})+4\pi\mu\Big)g^2dv\\ \notag&=&\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\Big((\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2})^2|v|^2l_1(v)-(\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2})|v|^2l_1(v)+4\pi\mu\Big)g^2dv\\ &\lesssim&-\frac{1}{4}\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{-1}g^2 dv+C_k\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{-3}g^2dv. \end{align}\tag{26}\] Now patching together estimates 24 , 25 and 26 and the fact that \(\|g\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{3}{2}}}\leq \varepsilon\|g\|^2_{L^2_{-\frac{1}{2}}}+C_\varepsilon\|g\|^2_{L^2_{-k}}\), we complete the proof of ?? .

Finally, we handle with ?? . Let \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}} g=\tilde{g},\mu^{\frac{1}{2}} h=\tilde{h}\) and \(\langle v\rangle^k f=\tilde{f}\), we rewrite it as \[\begin{align} &&\big(\Gamma(g,h),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}=\big(Q(\tilde{g},\tilde{h}),\tilde{f}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{k}\big)_{L^2_v}\\ &=&\big(Q(\tilde{g},\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{k}\tilde{h}),\tilde{f}\big)_{L^2_v}+\big(\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{k}Q(\tilde{g},\tilde{h})-Q(\tilde{g},\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^{k}\tilde{h}),\tilde{f}\big)_{L^2_v}:=\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2. \end{align}\]

For \(\Gamma_1\), by Lemma 2, we have \[\begin{align} \label{Ga1} |\Gamma_1|\lesssim\|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{D_2(0)}\|\tilde{f}\|_{D_2(0)}\leq C_k \|g\|_{L^2_v}\|h\|_{D_2(k)}\|f\|_{D_2(k)}. \end{align}\tag{27}\]

For \(\Gamma_2\), by integration by parts, we derive that \[\begin{align} \Gamma_2&=&2\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(b_i*\tilde{g})\partial_i(\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k)\tilde{h}\tilde{f}dv+\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(a_{ij}*\tilde{g})\partial_{ij}(\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k)\tilde{h}\tilde{f}dv\\ &&+2\sum_{i,j=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(a_{ij}*\tilde{g})\partial_i(\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k)\partial_j\tilde{f}\tilde{h}dv:=\Gamma_{2,1}+\Gamma_{2,2}+\Gamma_{2,3}. \end{align}\] We first have \[\begin{align} \label{Ga21} \notag|\Gamma_{2,1}|&\lesssim&\Big|\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{(v-v_*)v}{|v-v_*|^3}\tilde{g}(v_*)(\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2})\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\tilde{f}(\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|\leq1}+\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|>1})dv_*dv\Big|\\ &\lesssim&C_k\|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_6}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-\frac{1}{2}}}\big(\|\tilde{f}\|_{H^1_{-\frac{3}{2}}}+\|\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-\frac{1}{2}}}\big). \end{align}\tag{28}\] Here we use Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, \(|\frac{1}{2}+k\langle v\rangle^{-2}|\leq C_k\) and the facts that \(\langle v_*\rangle\sim\langle v\rangle\) when \(|v-v_*|\leq 1\) and \(|v-v_*|\geq \langle v_*\rangle^{-1}\langle v\rangle\) when \(|v-v_*|>1\).

For \(\Gamma_{2,2}\), using the short notation \(\tilde{g}_\ast = \tilde{g}(v_\ast)\), the relation \(\sum_{i,j=1}^3a_{ij}(v-v_*)v_iv_j=\sum_{i,j=1}^3a_{ij}(v-v_*)(v_*)_i(v_*)_j\) and \((\mathbf{I} - z \otimes z/|z|^2) : (x \otimes y) = |z/|z| \times x|\cdot|z/|z| \times y|\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{Ga22} \notag|\Gamma_{2,2}|&\leq& C_k\big|\int_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|(v-v_*)\times v_*|^2}{|v-v_*|^3}\tilde{g}_*\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k \tilde{f}dv_*dv\big|+C_k\big|\int_{\mathbb{R}^6}|v-v_*|^{-1}\langle v_*\rangle^2\tilde{g}_* \tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k \tilde{f} dv_*dv\big|\\ \notag&\leq& C_k\int_{\mathbb{R}^6}|v-v_*|^{-1}(\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|\leq1}+\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|\geq1})\langle v_* \rangle^2|\tilde{g}_*||\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k||\tilde{f}|dv_*dv \\ &\leq&C_k \|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\|\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}. \end{align}\tag{29}\]

For \(\Gamma_{2,3}\), a direct computation gives \[\begin{align} |\Gamma_{2,3}|&\leq& C_k\bigg[\int_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|(v-v_*)\times \nabla\tilde{f}|\cdot|(v-v_*)\times v_*|}{|v-v_*|^3}\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|<1}\tilde{g}_*\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^kdv_*dv\\ &&+ \int_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|(v-v_*)\times \nabla\tilde{f}|\cdot|(v-v_*)\times v_*|}{|v-v_*|^3}\mathbf{1}_{\substack{|v-v_*|\geq1\\|v-v_*|\leq\frac{1}{2}|v|} }\tilde{g}_*\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^kdv_*dv\\ && + \int_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|(v-v_*)\times \nabla\tilde{f}|\cdot|(v-v_*)\times v_*|}{|v-v_*|^3}\mathbf{1}_{\substack{|v-v_*|\geq1\\|v-v_*|>\frac{1}{2}|v|} }\tilde{g}_*\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^kdv_*dv\bigg]\\ &:=&\Gamma_{2,3,1}+\Gamma_{2,3,2}+\Gamma_{2,3,3}. \end{align}\] One may easily check that \[\begin{align} |\Gamma_{2,3,1}| \leq C_k \iint_{\mathbb{R}^6}|v-v_*|^{-1}\mathbf{1}_{|v-v_*|< 1}|v_*||\tilde{g}_*||\nabla\tilde{f}||\tilde{h}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k| dv_*dv \leq C_k \|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\|\nabla\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}. \end{align}\] In the regime \(|v-v_*|\leq\frac{1}{2}|v|\), we have \(|v|\sim |v_*|\), which implies that \[\begin{align} |\Gamma_{2,3,2}|\leq C_k\iint_{\mathbb{R}^6}|v-v_*|^{-1}\mathbf{1}_{\substack{|v-v_*|\geq1\\|v-v_*|\leq\frac{1}{2}|v|}}|v_*|\tilde{g}_*|\nabla\tilde{f}||\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}|dv_*dv \leq C_k \|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\|\nabla\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}. \end{align}\] While in the regime \(|v-v_*|\geq1, |v-v_*|> \frac{1}{2}|v|\), we have \(|v-v_*|^{-1}\lesssim\langle v\rangle^{-1}\). Then we get that \[\begin{align} |\Gamma_{2,3,3}| &\leq &C_k\iint_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|v\times\nabla\tilde{f}|}{\langle v\rangle^2}|v_*||\tilde{g}_*||\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}|dv_*dv+\iint_{\mathbb{R}^6}\frac{|\nabla f||v_*|^2}{\langle v\rangle^2}|\tilde{g}_*|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}|dv_*dv\\ &\leq&C_k \|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\big(\|(\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}}\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}+\|\nabla\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}\big). \end{align}\] Thus we obtain that \[\begin{align} \label{Ga23} |\Gamma_{2,3}|\leq C_k\|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_5}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\big(\|(\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}}\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}+\|\nabla\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}\big). \end{align}\tag{30}\] Together with 28 and 29 , this implies that \[\begin{align} \label{Ga2} |\Gamma_2|&\leq& C_k\|\tilde{g}\|_{L^2_6}\|\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}\langle v\rangle^k\tilde{h}\|_{L^2_{-1/2}}\big(\|(\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{\frac{1}{2}}\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}+\|\nabla\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-3/2}}+\|\tilde{f}\|_{L^2_{-\frac{1}{2}}}\big)\\ \notag&\leq& C_k\|g\|_{L^2_v}\|h\|_{D_2(k)}\|f\|_{D_2(k)}. \end{align}\tag{31}\] Therefore, we get the desired result ?? by combining 31 and 27 .

We complete the proof of this lemma.

Lemma 5. Let \(0\leq\chi_M\leq 1\) be a smooth cutoff function such that \(\chi_M(v)=1\) if \(|v|\leq M\) and \(\chi_M(v)=0\) if \(|v|\geq 2M\). Then for \(k\geq 5\), there exists suitably large \(A\) and \(M\) such that \[\begin{align} \label{LAM} \big((L-A\chi_M)f,f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}+\big(Q(g,f),f\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v} \leq -{\lambda_0} \|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}+C_k\|g\|_{L^2_{7}}\|f\|^2_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}} \end{align}\qquad{(11)}\] with some constants \(\lambda_0>0\) and \(C_k>0\).

Thanks to the definition of \(L\) in 14 , ?? and ?? in Lemma 3, the left-hand side of ?? has the upper bound \[\begin{align} -\lambda_0\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}+C_k\|g\|_{L^2_{7}}\|f\|^2_{H^1_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}+C_k\|f\|^2_{L^2_3}-A\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\chi_M f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv. \end{align}\] Since \(k \geq 5\) and \(\langle v\rangle^k\geq 1\), we have \[\begin{align} C_k\|f\|^2_{L^2_3}-A\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\chi_M f^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}dv\leq C_k\int_{|v|>M}f^2\langle v\rangle^{6}dv+(C_kM^6-A)\int_{|v|\leq M}f^2dv&\\ \leq\frac{C_k}{M}\|f\|^2_{L^2_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}+(C_kM^6-A)\int_{|v|\leq M}f^2dv\leq \frac{\lambda_0}{2}\|f\|^2_{D_1(k)}&, \end{align}\] if we choose \(M>2C_k/\lambda_0\) and \(A=C_kM^6\). It ends the proof of this lemma.

Before launching into the inequalities on \(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3\), we record the following interpolation inequalities. One may get the proof by combining Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, Young’s inequality and Lemma 4.15 in [34].

Lemma 6. Let \(a_i,k_i,b\in\mathbb{R}, i=1,2,3,\theta\in(0,1)\) verifying \(a_1=a_2\theta+a_3(1-\theta)\) and \(k_1=k_2\theta+k_3(1-\theta)\), then for any function \(f(x,v)\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{interpolation2} \|f\|_{H^{a_1}_xH^b_{k_1}}\lesssim\|f\|^\theta_{H^{a_2}_xH^b_{k_2}}\|f\|^{1-\theta}_{H^{a_3}_xH^b_{k_3}}. \end{align}\qquad{(12)}\] Noticing that for any \(a\in\mathbb{R}\) and radial function \(\phi\), we have(see Lemma 5.8 in [31]) \[\begin{align} \phi(|D|)(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{a}=(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{a}\phi(|D|),\quad and\quad\phi(|v|)(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{a}=(-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^2})^{a}\phi(|v|), \end{align}\] thus it still holds true if we replace \(H^b_{k_i}\) in ?? by \(D_1(k_i)\) or \(D_2(k_i)\), i=1,2,3.

Lemma 7. Recall the energy and dissipation functionals defined in 19 . For any multi-index \(\alpha\) with \(|\alpha|=2\), we have \[\begin{align} &&\sum_{|\alpha_1|\geq1}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh),\partial^\alpha_xf\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\big)_{L^2_v}dx\leq C_k\|g\|_{X_{15}}\|h\|_{Y_k}\|f\|_{Y_k},~~k\geq 15,\label{Qal1al2}\\ &&\sum_{\alpha_1+\alpha_2=\alpha}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\Gamma(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh),\partial^\alpha_xf\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}dx\leq C_k{\|g\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}}\|h\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}\|f\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_k},~~{k\geq0}.\label{Gaal1al2} \end{align}\] {#eq: sublabel=eq:Qal1al2,eq:Gaal1al2}

We begin with the proof of ?? . For the case \(|\alpha_1|=|\alpha_2|=1\), by ?? in Lemma 3, we have that \[\begin{align} &&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh),\partial^\alpha_xf\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\big)_{L^2_v}dx \leq C_k \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\|\partial^{\alpha_1}_x g\|_{L^2_7}\|\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh\|_{D_1(k-7)}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|_{D_1(k-8)}dx. \end{align}\] By Hölder inequality, Sobolev embedding \(H^1_x(\mathbb{T}^3)\hookrightarrow L^6_x(\mathbb{T}^3),H^{1/2}_x(\mathbb{T}^3)\hookrightarrow L^3_x(\mathbb{T}^3)\), the right-hand side can be bounded by \[\begin{align} &&C_k\|\partial^{\alpha_1}_x g\|_{L^6_xL^2_7}\|\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh\|_{L^3_xD_1(k-7)}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|_{L^2_xD_1(k-8)}\\ &\leq& C_k\|\partial^{\alpha_1}_x g\|_{H^1_xL^2_7}\|\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh\|_{H^{1/2}_xD_1(k-7)}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|_{L^2_xD_1(k-8)}\\ &\leq& C_k\|g\|_{X_{15}}\|h\|_{Y_k}\|f\|_{Y_k}, \end{align}\] where the last step invokes Lemma 6 to obtain \[\begin{align} \|\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh\|_{H^{1/2}_xD_1(k-7)}\lesssim\|\partial^{\alpha_2}_xh\|_{H^{1/2}_xD_1(k-6)}\leq C_k\|h\|^{1/4}_{L^2_xD_1(k)}\|h\|^{3/4}_{H^{2}_xD_1(k-8)}\leq C_k\|h\|_{Y_k}. \end{align}\]

For \(|\alpha_1|=2\) we use the Sobolev embedding \(H^{3/2+\delta}_x(\mathbb{T}^3)\hookrightarrow L^\infty_x(\mathbb{T}^3)\) (\(\delta>0\)) together with the interpolation estimate \[\begin{align} \|h\|_{H^{7/4}_xD_1(k-7)}\leq C_k\|h\|^{1/8}_{L^2_xD_1(k)}\|h\|^{7/8}_{H^2_xD_1(k-8)}\leq C_k\|h\|_{Y_k} \end{align}\] supplied by Lemma 6. In fact, we have \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\partial^{\alpha}_xg,h),\partial^\alpha_xf\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\big)_{L^2_v}dx \leq C_k \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\|\partial^{\alpha}_x g\|_{L^2_7}\|h\|_{D_1(k-7)}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|_{D_1(k-8)}dx&\\ \leq C_k\|\partial^{\alpha}_x g\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}\|h\|_{H^{7/4}_xD_1(k-7)}\|\partial^\alpha_x f\|_{{L_x^2} D_1(k-8)}\leq C_k\|g\|_{X_{15}}\|h\|_{Y_k}\|f\|_{Y_k}&. \end{align}\] This completes the proof of ?? .

A similar argument yields ?? , this time invoking ?? instead of ?? . We omit the details and regard the lemma as proved.

We end this section with two important compactness lemmas.

Lemma 8. For any \(a,b>0\), multiplication by a function in \(\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^3)\) is a compact operator from \(H^a(\mathbb{R}^3)\) to \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\), and the embedding \(H^a_b(\mathbb{R}^3)\hookrightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\) is compact. Moreover, for any \(c>0\), the embedding \(H^c_xH^a_b(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3)\hookrightarrow L^2(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3)\) is compact.

The proof of the first assertion can be found in Lemma 1.68 in [35]. We give the proof for the second assertion. Suppose \(\{f_j\},j\in\mathbb{N}\) is a bounded sequence in space \(H^a_b\). By Lemma 4.15 in [34], we have \[\begin{align} \|f_{i}\|^2_{H^a_b}\sim \sum_{k=-1}^\infty \|\langle v\rangle^b{\mathcal{P}}_k f_i\|^2_{H^a}, \end{align}\] where the dyadic operator \({\mathcal{P}}_k\) is defined as \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{P}}_{-1} f=\psi f,\quad {\mathcal{P}}_kf=\varphi(2^{-k}\cdot)f,~~k\geq0, \end{align}\] with nonnegative functions \(\psi,\varphi\in C^\infty_c(\mathbb{R}^3)\) satisfying \(\psi+\sum_{k\geq0}\varphi(2^{-k}\cdot)\equiv1\). Then by the first assertion and diagonal argument, there exists a subsequence, still denoted by \(\{f_{i}\}\), such that \(\langle v\rangle^b{\mathcal{P}}_k f_i\) converges in \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\) for any \(k\geq-1\). Since \[\begin{align} \|f_i-f_j\|^2_{L^2}&\sim& \sum_{k=-1}^\infty 2^{-2bk}\|\langle v\rangle^{b}{\mathcal{P}}_k(f_i-f_j)\|^2_{L^2}\\ &=&\sum_{k< M}2^{-2bk}\|\langle v\rangle^{b}{\mathcal{P}}_k(f_i-f_j)\|^2_{L^2}+\sum_{k\geq M}2^{-2bk}\|\langle v\rangle^{b}{\mathcal{P}}_k(f_i-f_j)\|^2_{L^2}\\ &\leq& M\sup_{k< M}\|\langle v\rangle^b{\mathcal{P}}_k(f_i-f_j)\|^2_{L^2}+C_b 2^{-2bM}\sup_{i}\|f_i\|^2_{H^a_b}. \end{align}\] For any \(\varepsilon>0\), we first choose large \(M\) such that the second term less that \(\varepsilon/2\). Noticing that \(\{\langle v\rangle^b{\mathcal{P}}_k f_i\}\) is a Cauchy sequence for any \(k\geq-1\), thus there exists \(N_M>0\) such that for \(i,j>N_M\), \[\begin{align} \sup_{k< M}\|\langle v\rangle^b{\mathcal{P}}_k(f_i-f_j)\|^2_{L^2}<\frac{\varepsilon{2M}}{,} \end{align}\]which implies that \(\{f_i\}\) is a Cauchy sequence in \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\).

It is straightforward to extend the above results to the case \(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3\) and we end the proof of this lemma.

Lemma 9 (Aubin-Lions). Let \(E_0\subset E\subset E_1\) be reflexive Banach spaces, with the imbedding \(E_0\subset E\) being compact. If \(0<T<\infty,1\leq p,1<r\) and the functions sequence \(\{f_j\}, j\in\mathbb{N}\) satisfies \[\begin{align} \|f_j\|_{L^p([0,T],E_0)}\leq C_1,\quad \|\frac{d}{dt}f_j(t)\|_{L^r([0,T],E_1)}\leq C_2,\quad \forall j\in \mathbb{N} \end{align}\] for some constants \(C_1,C_2<\infty\), then \(\{f_j\}\) is relatively compact in \(L^p([0,T],E)\).

The proof of this lemma can be found in Lemma 3.7 in [36]. For our application in the next section, \(p=2,r=2, E=H^1_xL^2_7,E_1=H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}\) and \(E_0=Y_k,k\geq 17\). Thanks to Lemma 8 and definition of \(Y_k\) in 19 , we know that \(Y_k\subset H^2_xH^1_{k-8-\frac{3}{2}}\hookrightarrow H^1_xL^2_7=E\) is compact for \(k\geq 17\).

5 Local well-posedness and non-negativity↩︎

In this section, we establish local well-posedness by means of a standard iterative scheme. Before that, we first analyze the underlying linear equation.

5.1 Local existence of linear equation and non-negativity↩︎

Lemma 10. Suppose \(k\geq 17\), \((g_0,V(0),T(0))\in X_k\times\mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R}^+\) with \(\mu+g_0\geq0\). There exists some \(0<\varepsilon_0<1,\mathcal{T}_0>0\) such that for all \(\mathcal{T}<\mathcal{T}_0\), \(h\in L^\infty([0,\mathcal{T}],X_k)\) satisfying \[\begin{align} \|h\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}<\varepsilon_0,\quad \mu+h\geq0, \end{align}\] the Cauchy problem \[\label{linear} \left\{\begin{align} &\partial_tg +T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g=T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(\mu+h,g)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(h,\mu)+B_{1,h}(g)+B_{2,h}(\mu),\\ &V_h'(t)=E-2R_h(t),\quad T_h'(t)=\frac{4}{3}V_h(t)\cdot R_h(t), \end{align}\right.\qquad{(13)}\] where \[\begin{align} &B_{1,h}(g)=-(-\frac{1}{2} T_h(t)^{-1}T_h'(t)v+2T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R_h(t))\cdot\nabla_v g+\frac{3}{2} T_h(t)^{-1} T_h'(t) g+T_h(t)^{-1}\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v g\Big),\\ &B_{2,h}(\mu)=-(-\frac{1}{2} T_h(t)^{-1}T_h'(t)v+2T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R_h(t))\cdot\nabla_v \mu+\frac{3}{2} T_h(t)^{-1} T_h'(t) \mu+T_h(t)^{-1}\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big),\\ &R_h(t)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}(\mu+h)dvdx \end{align}\] with the initial data \((g_0,V(0),T(0))\) admits a weak solution satisfying \[\begin{align} g\in L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)\cap L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k),~~\mu+g\geq0 \end{align}\] and the energy bound \[\begin{align} \label{energybound} \|g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+\lambda_0\|T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}g\|^2_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k)}\leq 2\big(\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}+{\mathcal{T}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\|h\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\big)+C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}S^2(t)dt, \end{align}\qquad{(14)}\] where \(S(t)\) is defined in 45 and 42 .

Since, for any given \(h\), the pair \((V_h,T_h)\) forms a self-contained system, we begin by deriving estimates for \(V_h(t)\), \(T_h(t)\), and \(R_h(t)\) on a short time interval. As \(T(0)>0\), continuity allows us to assume that \(T_h(t)>0\) for sufficiently small times. We first estimate \(R_h(t)\) in two different ways. On one hand, since \[\begin{align} \sup\limits_{t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}\|\mu+h(t)\|_{L^2_{x}L^2_2\cap L^1_{x,v}}< 3, \end{align}\] we have \[\begin{align} \label{R146new} \notag |R_h(t)|&\leq&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}|\mu+h|dvdx\\ \notag&\leq& \Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle^2|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}dvdx\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(\mu+h)^2dvdx\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}} \\ &\leq& 20T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}}, \end{align}\tag{32}\] by a change of variables since \(v \mapsto \langle v \rangle^{-2} |v|^{-2}\) is integrable. On the other hand, we split the integral regime into \(|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\leq \frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|\) and \(|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|>\frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|\), i.e., \[\begin{align} R_h(t)&=&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}(\mu+h)dvdx\\ &=&\int_{|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\leq \frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|}+\int_{|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|>\frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|}. \end{align}\] In the first regime, it holds that \(|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\geq \frac{1}{2}|V_h(t)|\) and in the second regime, we have \(|v|>\frac{1}{2}T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|\). Thus we have \[\begin{align} \label{R246new} \notag|R_h(t)|&\leq& 4\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}|V_h(t)|^{-1}\|\mu+h\|_{L^1_{x,v}}+ \Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle^2}dvdx\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}}\\ \notag&&\times2^k|V_h(t)|^{-k}T_h(t)^{k/2}\|\mu+h\|_{L^2_xL^2_k}\leq 5\times2^k(\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}|V_h(t)|^{-1} + |V_h(t)|^{-k} T_h(t)^{k/2-3/4})\\ \end{align}\tag{33}\] for any \(k>0\). Using that \(a \leq b_1\) and \(a \leq b_2\) (for \(a \geq 0\)) implies \(a \leq \sqrt{b_1 b_2}\), we get (choosing \(k=2\)) \[\begin{align} \label{T4} |T_h'(t)|=\frac{4}{3} |R_h(t)\cdot V_h(t)|\leq 40T_h(t)^{-3/8}(1 + T_h(t)^{1/8}). \end{align}\tag{34}\] This suffices to show that there exists \(0<t_0<1\), depending only on \(T(0)\) (in fact, on the lower bound of \(T(0)\)), such that \[\begin{align} \label{T3} T(0)/2\leq T_h(t)\leq 3T(0)/2,\quad t\in[0,t_0]. \end{align}\tag{35}\] For example, we can choose \[\begin{align} \label{t0} t_0=\frac{1}{160}\min\{1,T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}\}. \end{align}\tag{36}\] Then 35 implies that \[\begin{align} \label{Rupperbound} |R_h(t)|\leq 40 T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}},\quad t\in[0,t_0]. \end{align}\tag{37}\] Furthermore, since \[\begin{align} V_h(t)=V(0)+Et-2\int_0^{t}R_h(\tau)d\tau, \end{align}\] together with 37 , this implies \[\begin{align} \label{Vupperbound} |V_h(t)|\leq |V(0)+Et|+80tT(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}},\quad t\in[0,t_0]. \end{align}\tag{38}\]

With the short-time behavior of \(T_h(t),R_h(t)\) and \(V_h(t)\), we are now in the position to handle the equation for \(g\) within \(t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}],{\mathcal{T}}<t_0\). To be rigorous, we regularize the equation, and first consider the following system \[\label{linearkappa} \partial_tg_\kappa+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g_\kappa=T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(\mu+h,g_\kappa)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(h,\mu)+B_{1,h}(g_\kappa)+B_{2,h}(\mu)-T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\kappa\langle v\rangle^6\big((\Lambda\mathbf{I}-\Delta_v)^2\big)g_k\tag{39}\] with \(\kappa>0\) and initial data \[\begin{align} (g_\kappa(0),V_h(0),T_h(0))=(g_0,V(0),T(0)). \end{align}\] Here, \(\Lambda>0\) is large enough such that for any \(\psi\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{D2} (\langle v\rangle^6\big((\Lambda \mathbf{I}-\Delta_v)^2\big)\psi,\psi)_{X_k}\geq \sum_{|\alpha|\leq 2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x\psi\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}. \end{align}\tag{40}\] Let \(\mathcal{Q}\) be the linear operator given by \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{Q}}=-\partial_t+(T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x-T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q^*(\mu+h,\cdot))-B^*_{1,h}(\cdot)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\kappa\langle v\rangle^6\big((\Lambda \mathbf{I}-\Delta_v)^2\big)^*, \end{align}\] where the adjoint operator \((\cdot)^*\) is taken with respect to the scalar product in \(X_k\). Then, for all \(z\in C^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3,{\mathcal{S}}(\mathbb{R}^3))\) with \(z({\mathcal{T}})=0\) and \(0\leq t\leq {\mathcal{T}}\), we have \[\begin{align} (z(t),{\mathcal{Q}}z(t))_{X_k}&=&-\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|z\|^2_{X_k}+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}(v\cdot\nabla_xz,z)_{X_k}-T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(Q(\mu+h,z),z)_{X_k}\\ &&-(B_{1,h}(z),z)_{X_k}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\kappa(\langle v\rangle^6(\Lambda \mathbf{I}-\Delta_v^2)z,z)_{X_k}. \end{align}\] Denote the third and forth term on the right-hand side by \(I_1\) and \(J_1\), then we have \[\begin{align} I_1=-T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Big(\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(Q(\mu+h,\partial^\alpha_xz),\partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)})_{L^2_{x,v}}-\sum_{|\alpha_1|\geq 1}(Q(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xh,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xz),\partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)})_{L^2_{x,v}}\Big). \end{align}\] Due to Lemma 3 and Lemma 7, we can derive that \[\begin{align} \label{I1} I_1\geq T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_k\|h\|_{X_{15}})\|z\|^2_{Y_k}-C_kT_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|z\|^2_{X_{15}}. \end{align}\tag{41}\] For \(J_1\), the direct computation yields that \[\begin{align} J_1=&\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\Big[\Big((-\frac{1}{2} T_h(t)^{-1}T_h'(t)v+2T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R_h(t))\cdot\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz,\partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\\ -&\frac{3}{2}\Big( T_h(t)^{-1} T_h'(t) \partial^\alpha_x z,\partial^\alpha_x z\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}+T_h(t)^{-1}\Big( \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz\Big),\nabla_v(\partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)})\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\Big]\\ =&J_{1,1}+J_{1,2}+J_{1,3}. \end{align}\] Since \[\begin{align} &&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}v\cdot\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz \langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_xz dvdx=-3\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(\partial^\alpha_xz)^2\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ &&-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}v\cdot\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_x z \langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)} \partial^\alpha_x zdvdx-2(k-4|\alpha|)\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)-2}|v|^2 (\partial^\alpha_x z)^2dvdx, \end{align}\] which implies that \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}v\cdot\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz \langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_xzdvdx=&-\frac{3}{2} \|\partial^\alpha_xz\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}}-(k-4|\alpha|)\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)-2}|v|^2 (\partial^\alpha_x z)^2dvdx\\ =&-(k-4|\alpha|+\frac{3}{2})\|\partial^\alpha_xz\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}}+(k-4|\alpha|)\|\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|-1}}. \end{align}\] Similarly, we have \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_xzdv=-(k-4|\alpha|)\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)-2}v(\partial^\alpha_xz)^2dvdx. \end{align}\] Thus we can derive that \[\begin{align} J_{1,1}+J_{1,2}&=&\frac{1}{2}T_h(t)^{-1}T_h'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(k-4|\alpha|-\frac{3}{2})\|\partial^\alpha_xz\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}}+\frac{1}{2}T_h(t)^{-1}T_h'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(k-4|\alpha|)\|\partial^\alpha_xz\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|-1}}\\ &&-2T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R_h(t)(k-4|\alpha|)\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)-2}v(\partial^\alpha_xz)^2dvdx. \end{align}\] For \(J_{1,3}\), we have \[\begin{align} J_{1,3}&=&\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}T_h(t)^{-1}\Big( \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz\Big),\nabla_v(\partial^\alpha_xz)\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\\ &&+\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}2(k-4|\alpha|)T_h(t)^{-1}\Big( \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz\Big),\partial^\alpha_xz\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|-1)}v\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\\ &\geq&\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\frac{1}{2} T_h(t)^{-1}\Big( \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xz\Big),\nabla_v(\partial^\alpha_xz)\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\\ &&-C_kT_h(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}|\partial^\alpha_xz|^2\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|-1)}dvdx. \end{align}\] For the second term on the right-hand side, splitting the integral regime into \(|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\leq \frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|\) and \(|T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|>\frac{1}{2} |V_h(t)|\), we can bound it by \[\begin{align} C_k\big(T_h(t)^{-1}\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-1}\langle T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|\rangle^{-1}\big)\|z\|^2_{X_k}. \end{align}\]

Patching together the estimates of \(J_{1,1},J_{1,2}\) and \(J_{1,3}\), we have \[\begin{align} J_1\geq -C_kS_1(t)\|z\|^2_{X_k} \end{align}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{at} S_1(t)=T_h^{-1}(t)|T'_h(t)|+T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R_h(t)|+T_h(t)^{-1}\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-1}\langle T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|\rangle^{-1}. \end{align}\tag{42}\] Therefore, combining with 41 and 40 , we obtain \[\begin{align} (z(t),{\mathcal{Q}}z(t))_{X_k} &\geq& -\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|z(t)\|^2_{X_k}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_k\|h\|_{X_{15}})\|z\|^2_{Y_k}-C_kT_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|z\|^2_{X_{15}}\\ &&-C_kS_1(t)\|z\|^2_{X_k}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\kappa\sum_{|\alpha|=0, 2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}. \end{align}\] If \(\varepsilon_0<\lambda_0/2C_k\), we get that \[\begin{align} -\frac{d}{dt}(e^{W(t)}\|z\|^2_{X_k})+\lambda_0e^{W(t)}T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|z\|^2_{Y_k}\leq 2e^{W(t)}|(z,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}|-2\kappa e^{W(t)}T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}, \end{align}\] where \(W(t)=2C_k\int_t^{{\mathcal{T}}}(S_1(\tau)+T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t))d\tau\). Note that \(T_h^{-1}(t)\), \(|T'_h(t)|\) and \(|R_h(t)|\) are all bounded from above by some constant \(C_{T(0)}\) which only depend on the lower bound of \(T(0)\) on \([0,t_0]\) thanks to 35 , 34 and 37 . Then from 42 , we have \[\begin{align} |S_1(t)+T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t)|\lesssim T_h^{-1}(t)|T'_h(t)|+T_h^{-\frac{1}{2}}(t)|R_h(t)|+T_h^{-1}(t)+T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t)\lesssim C_{T(0)},\quad t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}] \end{align}\] is bounded and hence integrable. Since \(z({\mathcal{T}})=0\), for all \(t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{zt} &&\notag\|z(t)\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa\int_t^{{\mathcal{T}}}T(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}d\tau\\ &\leq& 2\int_t^{{\mathcal{T}}}e^{W(\tau)}|(z,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}|d\tau\leq 2e^{W(0)}\int_0^{{\mathcal{T}}}|(z,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}|d\tau. \end{align}\tag{43}\] We estimates the right-hand side as follows: \[\begin{align} \int_0^{{\mathcal{T}}}|(z,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}|d\tau \leq \int_0^{{\mathcal{T}}} \|z\|_{X_k}\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{X_k}d\tau\leq \|z\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}, \end{align}\] which implies that \[\begin{align} \label{injection} \|z\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\leq 2e^{W(0)}\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)} \end{align}\tag{44}\] and \[\begin{align} \kappa\int_0^{{\mathcal{T}}}T(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}d\tau\leq 4e^{2W(0)}\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}. \end{align}\]

Consider the vector subspace \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{W}}=\{w={\mathcal{Q}}z: z\in C^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3,{\mathcal{S}}(\mathbb{R}^3)),z({\mathcal{T}})=0\}\subset L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k). \end{align}\] Since \(g_0\in X_k\), we define a linear functional \[\begin{align} \mathfrak{G}:{\mathcal{W}}\rightarrow \mathop{\mathbb{C}\kern 0pt}\nolimits,\quad w={\mathcal{Q}}z \mapsto (g_0,z(0))_{X_k}-(T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(h,\mu),z)_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}-(B_{2,h}(\mu),z)_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}, \end{align}\] where \(z\in C^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3,{\mathcal{S}}(\mathbb{R}^3))\) with \(z({\mathcal{T}})=0\). According 44 , the operator \({\mathcal{Q}}\) is injective. The functional \(\mathfrak{G}\) is therefore well defined.

Now let \[\begin{align} I_2=T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(Q(h,\mu),z)_{X_k},\quad J_2=(B_{2,h}(\mu),z)_{X_k}. \end{align}\] Since \[\begin{align} (Q(h,\mu),z)_{X_k}=\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(Q(\partial^{\alpha}_xh,\mu),\partial^\alpha_x z\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|})_{L^2_{x,v}}, \end{align}\] due to Lemma 3, we can obtain that \[\begin{align} |I_2|\leq C_k T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\partial^\alpha_xh\|_{L^2_xL^2_3}\|\partial^\alpha_xz\|_{L^2_xL^2_3}\leq C_k T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|h\|_{X_k}\|z\|_{X_k}. \end{align}\] For \(J_2\), it follows immediately from the definition of \(B_{2,h}\) that \[\begin{align} |J_2|&\leq& C_kS_1(t)\|z\|_{X_{k}}+T_h(t)^{-1}\Big(\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big),z\Big)_{X_k}\\ &\lesssim& C_kS_1(t)\|z\|_{X_{k}}+T_h(t)^{-1}\Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla^2_v \mu,z\Big)_{L^2_xL^2_k}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\frac{1}{|V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|}|\nabla_v \mu|,|z|\Big)_{L^2_xL^2_k}, \end{align}\] where \(S_1(t)\) is defined in 42 . Using the same argument as 32 and 33 , we can bounded the last two terms on the right-hand side by \[\begin{align} \min\{T_h(t)^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{5}{4}},T_h(t)^{-1}\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-1}\langle T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|^{-1}+|V_h(t)|^{-1}\}. \end{align}\] Thus, we obtain \[\begin{align} |J_2|\leq C_kS(t)\|z\|_{X_{k}}\leq C_{k,T(0)}\|z\|_{X_{k}},\quad t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}], \end{align}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{St} &&S(t) :=S_1(t)+\min\big\{T_h(t)^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{5}{4}},\\ \notag&&T_h(t)^{-1}\langle V_h(t)\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-1}\langle T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|\rangle^{-1}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V_h(t)|^{-1}+|V_h(t)|^{-1}\big\}. \end{align}\tag{45}\] Using 44 , it holds that \[\begin{align} |\mathfrak{G}(w)|&\leq&\|g_0\|_{X_k}\|z(0)\|_{X_k}+C_kT(0)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|h\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\|z\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+C_{k,T(0)}\|z\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\\ &\leq& {C_{k,h,T(0)}\|z\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}}\leq C\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}=C\|w\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)} \end{align}\] with \(C\) depending on \(k,h\) and \(T(0)\). Using Hahn-Banach theorem, \(\mathfrak{G}\) may be extend as a continuous linear form on \(L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)\) with a norm smaller than \(C\). It follows that there exists \(g_\kappa\in L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)\) such that \[\begin{align} \label{a01} \mathfrak{G}(w)=\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}(g_\kappa(t),w(t))_{X_k}dt,\quadfor all\quad w\in L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k). \end{align}\tag{46}\] Hence, for all \(h\), we have \[\label{weaksense} \mathfrak{G}({\mathcal{Q}}z)=\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}(g_\kappa,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}dt=(g_0,z(0))_{X_k}-\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T_{h}^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t)(Q(h(t),\mu),z(t))_{X_k}dt-\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}(B_{2,h}(\mu),z(t))_{X_k}dt.\tag{47}\] This shows that \(g_\kappa\) is a weak solution of the Cauchy problem ?? because \(\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^{2\alpha}_x\) is bijective in \(C^\infty_0((-\infty,{\mathcal{T}}],{\mathcal{S}}(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3))\).

Furthermore, since \[\begin{align} 2e^{W(0)}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}|(z,{\mathcal{Q}}z)_{X_k}|d\tau &\leq&\frac{\kappa}{2}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T_h(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}d\tau\\ &&+\frac{1}{2\kappa}e^{2W(0)}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T_h(\tau)^{\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|-3}\partial^\alpha_x{\mathcal{Q}}z\|^2_{L^2_xH^{-2}_v}d\tau, \end{align}\] from 43 , we have \[\begin{align} \|z(t)\|^2_{X_k}+\frac{\kappa}{2} \int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{\alpha}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_x z\|^2_{L^2_xH^2_v}d\tau\leq\frac{1}{2\kappa}e^{2W(0)}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T_h(\tau)^{\frac{3}{2}}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|-3}\partial^\alpha_x{\mathcal{Q}}z\|^2_{L^2_xH^{-2}_v}d\tau, \end{align}\] which implies that \(\|z\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\lesssim\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k)}\), where we denote by \(L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k)\) the space such that \(\omega\in L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k)\) if and only if \[\begin{align} \sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|-3}\partial^\alpha_x{\mathcal{Q}}z\|^2_{L^2_xH^{-2}_v}d\tau<\infty. \end{align}\] Therefore, \[\begin{align} |\mathfrak{G}(w)|\leq {C\|z\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}}\leq C\|{\mathcal{Q}}z\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k)}=C\|w\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k)}. \end{align}\] Together with 46 , we have that \(g_\kappa\in L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],\tilde{Y}_k^*),\) where \(\tilde{Y}_k^*\) is the dual space of \(\tilde{Y}_k\) and it leads to \[\begin{align} \sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\|\langle v\rangle^{k-4|\alpha|+3}\partial^\alpha_xg_\kappa\|^2_{L^2_xH^{2}_v}d\tau<\infty. \end{align}\] In particular, this implies \(\|g_\kappa\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_{k+3})}<\infty\). Equipped with this regularity of \(g_\kappa\), we are ready to show the energy bound. Using the basic energy method and the same argument used to estimate \(I_1,I_2\) and \(J_1,J_2\), we obtain \[\begin{align} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_\kappa\|^2_{X_k}+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_k\|h\|_{X_k})\|g_\kappa\|^2_{Y_k}\\ &\leq& C_{k}(S_1(t)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}+1)\|g_\kappa\|^2_{X_k}+C_kT_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|h\|^2_{X_k}+C_kS^2(t). \end{align}\] Rigorously speaking, due to the transport term \(v\cdot\nabla_x g_\kappa\), one should also regularize \(g_\kappa\) in \(x\) to justify the above inequality, we omit this here and refer the reader to the proof of Theorem 1.1 in [37] for details. This leads to \[\begin{align} &&\Big(\frac{1}{2}-C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}(S_1(t)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}+1)dt\Big)\|g_\kappa\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+(\lambda_0-C_k\varepsilon_0)\|T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}g_\kappa\|^2_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k)}\\ &\leq&\frac{1}{2}\|g_0\|_{X_k}^2+C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}dt\|h\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}S(t)^2dt. \end{align}\] Since \(S_1(t)+T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}+1\leq C_{T(0)}\) and \(T_h(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\leq 2^{\frac{3}{2}}T_h(0)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\) for \(t\in[0,t_0]\), which yields ?? under the assumption that \[\begin{align} \varepsilon_0<\lambda_0/(2C_k),\quad {\mathcal{T}}<\min\{1/(4C_kC_{T(0)}),(2^{-\frac{3}{2}}T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}/(2C_k))^2\}. \end{align}\] We can define \[\begin{align} \label{T0} \varepsilon_0=\lambda_0/(4C_k),\quad {\mathcal{T}}_0=\frac{1}{2}\min\{1/(4C_kC_{T(0)}),(2^{-\frac{3}{2}}T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}/(2C_k))^2,t_0\}. \end{align}\tag{48}\]

The existence of a weak solution of ?? is then, obtained by using uniform estimates and passing to the limit \(\kappa\rightarrow0\). Indeed, by 47 or 39 , it holds that \[\begin{align} \|\partial_t g_\kappa\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}&\leq& T_h^{\frac{1}{2}}\|v\cdot\nabla_x g_\kappa\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}+\|B_{1,h}(g_\kappa)+B_{2,h}(\mu)\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}\\ &&+T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|Q(\mu+h,g_\kappa)+Q(h,\mu)+\kappa\langle v\rangle^6\big((\lambda\mathbf{I}-\Delta_v)^2\big)g_\kappa\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}. \end{align}\] We first have \[\begin{align} \|v\cdot\nabla_x g_\kappa\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}+\|\kappa\langle v\rangle^6\big((\lambda\mathbf{I}-\Delta_v)^2\big)g_\kappa\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}\lesssim\|g_\kappa\|_{X_k}. \end{align}\] From the definitions of \(B_{1,h}\) and \(B_{2,h}\) it is straightforward to obtain \[\begin{align} \|B_{1,h}(g_\kappa)+B_{2,h}(\mu)\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}\lesssim(T_h^{-1}|T'_h|+T_h^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R_h|+T_h^{-1})(\|g_\kappa\|_{X_k}+1). \end{align}\] By duality and Lemma 2, we have \[\begin{align} \|Q(\mu+h,g_\kappa)+Q(h,\mu)\|_{H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}}\lesssim\|\mu+h\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}\|g_\kappa\|_{X_k}+\|h\|_{X_k}. \end{align}\] Thus, we obtain \[\begin{align} \label{patgkappa} \notag\|\partial_t g_\kappa\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6})}&\lesssim& {\mathcal{T}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\sup_{t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}(T_h^{\frac{1}{2}}+T_h^{-\frac{3}{2}}+T_h^{-1}|T'_h|+T_h^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R_h|+T_h^{-1})(t)\\ &\times&(1+\|h\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)})(1+\|g_\kappa\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}). \end{align}\tag{49}\] Noticing that the coefficients are bounded. Thus, \(\{g_\kappa\}\) is uniformly bounded in \(L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}], X_k)\cap L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], Y_k)\cap W^{1,2}([0,{\mathcal{T}}],H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6}),k\ge 17\). By Lemma 9, there exists a subsequence, denoted by \(g_{\kappa_i}\), converging to \(g\) in \(L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], H^1_xL^2_7)\) as \(\kappa_i\rightarrow 0\). We replace \(g_\kappa\) by \(g_{\kappa_i}\) in 39 and need to verify that 39 converges to ?? in weak sense as \(\kappa_i\to 0\). We only give the details for \[\begin{align} Q(\mu+h,g_{\kappa_i})\rightarrow Q(\mu+g,g),&&\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v g_{\kappa_i}\Big)\rightarrow \mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v g\Big)\\ && in\quad{\mathcal{D}}'([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3), \end{align}\] and the remaining terms are handled similarly. To this end, let \(\phi\in C_c^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3)\), by ?? in Lemma 2, we have \[\begin{align} &&\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(Q(\mu+h,g_{\kappa_i})-Q(\mu+h,g))\phi dvdxdt\Big|\\ &\leq&\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}Q(\mu+h,g_{\kappa_i}-g)\phi dvdxdt\Big| \leq C_\phi\|\mu+h\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\|g_{\kappa_i}-g\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\rightarrow 0, \end{align}\] as \(\kappa_i\rightarrow 0\). We also have \[\begin{align} &&\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\Big(\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v (g_{\kappa_i}-g),\nabla_v\phi\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}dt\Big|\\ &\lesssim& \Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\Big(g_{\kappa_i}-g,\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}:\nabla_v^2\phi\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}dt\Big|+\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\Big(g_{\kappa_i}-g,\nabla_v\frac{\Pi(V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v\phi\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}dt\Big|\\ &\lesssim& C_\phi {\mathcal{T}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\|g_{\kappa_i}-g\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}+C_\phi \sup_{t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}(T_h^{\frac{1}{2}}+T_h^{-\frac{1}{4}})(t)\|g_{\kappa_i}-g\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\rightarrow 0,\quadas\quad \kappa_i\rightarrow 0. \end{align}\] Here we use the fact \(\sup_{t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}(T_h^{\frac{1}{2}}+T_h^{-\frac{1}{4}})(t)\) is bounded above. We thereby complete the proof of the existence of a weak solution \(g\) with the desired bound.

We now give the proof for non-negativity. We come back to the original equation, i.e., \[\begin{align} \partial_t F+v\cdot\nabla_x F+E\cdot\nabla_v F=Q(J,F)+div_v \bigg(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \nabla_v F\bigg), \end{align}\] where \(F\) and \(J\) satisfy \(\mu+g=T_h(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}F(t,x+H_h(t),V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)\) and \(\mu+h=T_h(t)^{\frac{3}{2}}J(t,x+H_h(t),V_h(t)+T_h(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)\) with \(H_h(t)=\int_0^tV_h(\tau)d\tau\). Thus we need to prove \(F\geq 0\) under the condition that \(F(0)\geq0\) and \(J\geq0\).

In fact, let \(F_\pm=\pm\max\{\pm F,0\}\) then \[F_\pm\in L^\infty([0,T],X_k)\cap L^2([0,T],Y_k),\quad \nabla F_+=\left\{\begin{align} &\nabla F,\quad F>0;\\ &0,\quad F\leq0. \end{align}\right. \quad and\quad \nabla F_-=\left\{\begin{align} &\nabla F,\quad F< 0;\\ &0,\quad F\geq0. \end{align}\right.\] Multiply the above equation by \(F_-\) and integrate over \([0,t]\times\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3\). Then, in view of \(F_-(0)=0\) and \[\begin{align} \int_0^t {\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}} v\cdot\nabla_x F F_-dxdvd\tau=\int_0^t {\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}} E\cdot\nabla_v F F_-dxdvd\tau=0, \end{align}\] we have \[\begin{align} {\frac{1}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} |F_-(t)|^2dxdv=&\int_{0}^t\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}Q(J,F)F_-dvdxd\tau-\int_{0}^t\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \nabla_v F\nabla_vF_-dvdxd\tau\\ =&\int_{0}^t\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}Q(J,F_-)F_-dvdxd\tau-\int_{0}^t\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \nabla_v F_-\nabla_vF_-dvdxd\tau\leq 0, \end{align}\] which implies that \(F_-(t)=0\), that is \(F(t)\geq0\).

Thus we complete the proof of this lemma.

5.2 Local solution for non-linear equation and its uniqueness↩︎

The precise statement for local well-posedness is the following theorem.

Theorem 3. Consider the perturbative Cauchy problem 13 with initial data \((g_0,V(0),T(0))\in X_k\times\mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R}^+,k\geq17\) satisfying \(\mu+g_0\ge 0\). The constants \(\varepsilon_0,{\mathcal{T}}_0\) are defined in 48 . There exist small constants \(\varepsilon_1<\varepsilon_0\) depending on \(k\) and \(0<{\mathcal T}<{\mathcal T}_0\) depending on \(k\) and the lower bound of \(T(0)\) such that if \(\|g_0\|_{X_k}<\varepsilon^2_1\), then 13 admits a unique solution in \([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\) satisfying \[\mu+g(t)\ge 0,\qquad \|g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+\lambda_0\|T(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}}g\|^2_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k)}<\varepsilon_1^2.\]

Consider the sequence of approximate solutions defined by \(g^0=0\) and \[\label{linear2} \left\{\begin{align} &\partial_tg^{n+1} +T_{g^n}(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g^{n+1}=T_{g_n}(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(\mu+g^n,g^{n+1})+T_{g_n}(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(g^n,\mu)+B_{1,g^n}(g^{n+1})+B_{2,g^n}(\mu),\\ &V_{g_n}'(t)=E-2R_{g^n}(t),\quad T_{g^n}'(t)=\frac{4}{3}V_{g^n}(t)\cdot R_{g^n}(t) \end{align}\right.\tag{50}\] with initial data \((g^{n+1}(0),V_{g^n}(0),T_{g^n}(0))=(g_0,V(0),T(0))\). Using Lemma 10 with \(g=g^{n+1}, h=g^{n}\), it follows from ?? that \[\label{boundofg} \|g^{n+1}\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}+\lambda_0\|T_{g^n}^{-\frac{3}{2}}g^{n+1}\|^2_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k)} \leq2\big(\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}+{\mathcal{T}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\|g^n\|^2_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],X_k)}\big)+C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}S^2(t)dt\leq\varepsilon_1^2<\varepsilon_0^2,\tag{51}\] inductively, if \({\mathcal{T}}\) and \(\varepsilon_1\) are taken such that \[\begin{align} \label{Tvep0} 2(\varepsilon_1^4+{\mathcal{T}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\varepsilon_1^2)+C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}S^2(t)dt\leq \varepsilon_1^2. \end{align}\tag{52}\] It is sufficient for 52 to hold is by choosing \[\begin{align} \varepsilon_1<1/(2\sqrt{2}),\quad {\mathcal{T}}<1/64\quad and\quad C_k\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}S^2(t)dt<\varepsilon_1^2/4. \end{align}\] Noticing that when \({\mathcal{T}}<t_0\), \(|S(t)|\leq C_{T(0)}\) which only depend on the lower bound of \(T(0)\), thus we can choose \[\begin{align} \label{T02} \varepsilon_1<\min\{\varepsilon_0,1/(2\sqrt{2})\},\quad {\mathcal{T}}<\min\{{\mathcal{T}}_0,1/64,\varepsilon_1^2/(4C_{k,T(0)})\}. \end{align}\tag{53}\] Thanks to the estimate 49 , we also have that \(\{g^{n}\}\) is uniformly bounded in \(L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}], X_k)\cap L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], Y_k)\cap W^{1,2}([0,{\mathcal{T}}],H^{-1}_xH^{-4}_{-6})\), then Lemma 9 implies that \(g^n\rightarrow g\) in \(L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], H^1_xL^2_7)\). To complete the proof of local existence for the nonlinear equation, we need to verify that 50 remains valid in weak sense when both \(g^{n+1}\) and \(g^n\) are replaced by the limit \(g\).

We first prove convergence for the last two equations. Setting \(\omega^n=g^{n}-g,(\Delta T)^n=T_{g^{n}}-T_{g}\) and \((\Delta V)^n=V_{g^{n}}-V_{g}\). Since \[\begin{align} &&R_{g^n}(t)-R_{g}(t)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}\omega^{n}dvdx\\ &&+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\frac{V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}-\frac{V_{g}(t)+T_{g}^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle V_{g}(t)+T_{g}^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V_{g}(t)+T_{g}^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^2}\Big)(\mu+g)dvdx\\ &&:=O_1+O_2. \end{align}\] Use the same argument as in the estimates of \(R_h(t)\) in 32 and 33 (choosing \(k=3/2\)), we can derive that \[\begin{align} |O_1|\lesssim\min\big\{T_{g^n}(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}},|V_{g^n}(t)|^{-2}+|V_{g^n}(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big\}\|\omega^{n}\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}. \end{align}\] For \(O_2\), denoting \(V_{g^n}(t)+T_{g^n}^{1/2}v\) and \(V_g(t)+T_g^{1/2}v\) by \(W_n\) and \(W\), respectively, we have \[\begin{align} |W_n-W|\leq |V_{g^n}-V_{g}|+|T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g^n}-T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g}||v|\leq \big(1+(T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g^n}+T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g})^{-1}\big) \big(|(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)\langle v\rangle, \end{align}\] and \[\begin{align} \frac{W_n}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_n|^2}-\frac{W}{\langle W\rangle|W|^2}&=&\frac{W_n-W}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_n|^2}+W\frac{\langle W\rangle-\langle W_n\rangle}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_n|^2\langle W\rangle}+W\frac{|W|^2-|W_n|^2}{|W_n|^2\langle W\rangle|W|^2}\\ &\lesssim&|W_n-W|\Big(\frac{1}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_{n}|^2}+\frac{1}{\langle W\rangle|W|^2}\Big). \end{align}\] Then \[\label{O2} \begin{align} |O_2|\leq& \big(1+(T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g^n}+T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g})^{-1}\big)\big( |(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)\\ &\times\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\frac{1}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_{n}|^2}+\frac{1}{\langle W\rangle|W|^2}\Big)\langle v\rangle|\mu+g|dvdx. \end{align}\tag{54}\] We take the first term in the integral as an example. By the same arguments as in 32 and 33 , we have on the one hand \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_{n}|^2}\langle v\rangle|\mu+g|dvdx&\lesssim& \Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle W_n\rangle^{\frac{6}{5}}|W_{n}|^{\frac{12}{5}}}dvdx\Big)^{\frac{5}{6}}\Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^6|\mu+g|^6dvdx\Big)^{\frac{1}{6}}\\ &\lesssim&T_{g^n}^{-\frac{5}{4}}\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_xH^1_1}, \end{align}\] where we have used the fact that \(v\mapsto \langle v\rangle^{-6/5}|v|^{-12/5}\) is integrable, together with the Sobolev embedding \(H^1_1(\mathbb{R}^3)\hookrightarrow L^6_1(\mathbb{R}^3)\). On the other hand, we have \[\begin{align} &&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle W_n\rangle|W_{n}|^2}\langle v\rangle|\mu+g|dvdx=\int_{|T_{g^n}(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\leq \frac{1}{2} |V_{g^n}(t)|}+\int_{|T_{g^n}(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|>\frac{1}{2} |V_{g^n}(t)|}\\ &\lesssim& |T_{g^n}|^{-2}\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_{x}L^2_3}+|V_{g^n}|^{-2}T_{g^n}^{-\frac{1}{4}}\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_xH^1_{3}}. \end{align}\] Plugging these into 54 , we obtain \[\begin{align} |O_2|&\lesssim& \big(1+(T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g^n}+T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g})^{-1}\big)\big( |(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)\\ &\times&\min\Big\{1+T_{g^n}^{-\frac{5}{4}}+T_{g}^{-\frac{5}{4}},|V_{g^n}|^{-2}+|V_{g^n}|^{-2}T_{g^n}^{-\frac{1}{4}}+|V_{g}|^{-2}+|V_{g}|^{-2}T_{g}^{-\frac{1}{4}}\Big\}\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_xH^1_3}. \end{align}\] Combining the estimates of \(O_1\) and \(O_2\), we conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{0001} \notag|\big((\Delta V)^{n}\big)'|\lesssim|R_{g^n}(t)-R_{g}(t)|\lesssim C_1(t)(\|\omega^{n}\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}+\big( |(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_xH^1_3})\\ \end{align}\tag{55}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{C1t} C_1(t)&:=&\min\big\{T_{g^n}(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}},|V_{g^n}(t)|^{-2}+|V_{g^n}(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big\}+\big(1+(T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g^n}+T^{\frac{1}{2}}_{g})^{-1}\big)\\ \notag&&\times\min\Big\{1+T_{g^n}^{-\frac{5}{4}}+T_{g}^{-\frac{5}{4}},|V_{g^n}|^{-2}+|V_{g^n}|^{-2}T_{g^n}^{-\frac{1}{4}}+|V_{g}|^{-2}+|V_{g}|^{-2}T_{g}^{-\frac{1}{4}}\Big\}. \end{align}\tag{56}\]

Similarly, we have \[\begin{align} &&|V_{g^n}(t)\cdot R_{g^n}(t)-V_{g}(t)\cdot R_{g}(t)|=(\Delta V)^{n}\cdot R_{g}(t)+V_{g^{n}}(t)\cdot(R_{g^n}(t)-R_{g}(t))\\ &\lesssim& \min\big\{T_{g}(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}},|V_{g}(t)|^{-2}+|V_{g}(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big\}|(\Delta V)^{n}|\\ &&+C_1(t)|V_{g^n}(t)|\Big(\|\omega^{n}\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}+|\big( |(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)\|\mu+g\|_{L^2_xH^1_5}\Big), \end{align}\] where we use 32 and 33 (choosing \(k=3/2\)) to bound \(R_{g}\). We denote coefficient by \[\begin{align} \label{C2t} C_2(t):=\min\big\{T_{g}(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}},|V_{g}(t)|^{-2}+|V_{g}(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big\}+C_1(t)(1+|V_{g^n}(t)|) \end{align}\tag{57}\] and conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{0002} |\big((\Delta T)^{n}\big)'|&\lesssim& |V_{g^n}(t)\cdot R_{g^n}(t)-V_{g}(t)\cdot R_{g}(t)|\\ \notag&\lesssim& C_2(t)\Big(\|\omega^{n}\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}+\big( |(\Delta V)^{n}|+|(\Delta T)^{n}|\big)(1+\|T_{g}^{-\frac{3}{4}}g\|_{L^2_xH^1_5})\Big). \end{align}\tag{58}\]

Combining 55 and 58 and noting that \(((\Delta V)^{n}(0),(\Delta T)^{n}(0))=(0,0)\), we obtain \[\begin{align} &&|(\Delta V)^{n}(t)|+|(\Delta T)^{n}(t)| \leq \sup_{\tau\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}C_2(\tau)\Big( \|\omega^{n}\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\\ &&+\int_0^t(\|\mu+g(\tau)\|_{L^2_xH^1_5})\big(|(\Delta V)^{n-1}(\tau)|+|(\Delta T)^{n-1}(\tau)|\big)d\tau\Big),\quad for any \quad t\in(0,{\mathcal{T}}]. \end{align}\] Noticing that \(\|\mu+g\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xH^1_5)}\lesssim 1+\|g\|_{L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}],Y_k)}\lesssim 1\) in view of 51 , then by Grönwall’s inequality, we can derive that \[\begin{align} \label{DVDT} |(\Delta V)^{n}(t)|+|(\Delta T)^{n}(t)|\lesssim\sup_{\tau\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}C_2(\tau) \|\omega^{n}\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)},\quad for any \quad t\in(0,{\mathcal{T}}]. \end{align}\tag{59}\] It is easy to see that \(\sup_{\tau\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]}C_2(\tau)<\infty\), we thus have \(V_{g_n}\to V_g\) and \(T_{g_n}\to T_g\) as \(n\to\infty\) since \(\omega^n=g^n-g\rightarrow 0\) in \(L^2([0,{\mathcal{T}}], H^1_xL^2_7)\) as \(n\to\infty\).

For the first equation in 50 , in virtue of the convergence of \(V_{g^n}\) and \(T_{g^n}\), we only give the details for \[\begin{align} Q(\mu+g^n,g^{n+1})\rightarrow Q(\mu+g,g)\quad in\quad{\mathcal{D}}'([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3), \end{align}\] and the remaining terms are handled similarly. To this end, let \(\phi\in C_c^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}]\times\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3)\), by ?? in Lemma 2, we have \[\begin{align} &&\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(Q(\mu+g^n,g^{n+1})-Q(\mu+g,g))\phi dvdxdt\Big|\\ &\leq&\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}Q(g^n-g,g^{n+1})\phi dvdxdt\Big|+\Big|\int_0^{\mathcal{T}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}Q(\mu+g,g^{n+1}-g)\phi dvdxdt\Big|\\ &\leq&C_\phi\|g^n-g\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\|g^{n+1}\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}+C_\phi\|\mu+g\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\|g^{n+1}-g\|_{L^1([0,{\mathcal{T}}],L^2_xL^2_7)}\rightarrow 0, \end{align}\] as \(n\rightarrow \infty\). We thereby complete the proof of the existence of a weak solution \(g\) with the desired bound.

Finally, we go back to the original equation for \(F\) and give the proof of uniqueness. By the change of variables between \(F\) and \(G\) (see 12 ), together with the boundedness of \(|V(t)|\), \(T(t)\) and \(T^{-1}(t)\), we obtain \[\begin{align} &&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\partial^\alpha_x F(t,x,v)|^2\langle v\rangle^{16}dvdx=T(t)^{-3}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\partial^\alpha_x G(t,x-H(t),T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}(v-V(t)))|^2\langle v\rangle^{16}dvdx\\ &\lesssim&T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\partial^\alpha_x G(t,x,v)|^2\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle^{16}dvdx\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(1+\langle V(t)\rangle^{16}+T(t)^{8})\|G\|^2_{X_k},\quad k\geq 16, \end{align}\] which implies that \(\|F\|_{H^2_xL^2_8}\lesssim C_{\mathcal{T}}\|G\|_{X_k}\). Indeed, we can get that \[\begin{align} \label{FG} &&\|F\|_{H^2_xL^2_8}\lesssim C_{\mathcal{T}}\|G\|_{X_k}\in L^\infty[0,{\mathcal{T}}],\quad \|F\|_{H^2_xD_1(8)}\lesssim C_{\mathcal{T}}\|G\|_{Y_k}\in L^2[0,{\mathcal{T}}],\\ \notag &&and\quad \|F(t,x,\cdot)\|_{L^1_v}\geq\inf_{x\in\mathbb{T}^3}\|(\mu+g)(t,x,\cdot)\|_{L^1_v}\geq \|\mu\|_{L^1_v}-\|g\|_{X_k}\geq\frac{1}{2},\quad \forall t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]. \end{align}\tag{60}\] Suppose \(F_1\) and \(F_2\) are two solutions of 6 with the same initial data \(F_0\) and satisfy 60 . Let \(\tilde{F}=F_1-F_2\), then we have \(\tilde{F}(0)=0\) and \[\begin{align} \partial_t \tilde{F} + v\cdot\nabla_x \tilde{F} +E \cdot \nabla_v \tilde{F} = Q(F_1,\tilde{F})+Q(\tilde{F},F_2)+div\bigg(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \nabla_v \tilde{F}\bigg). \end{align}\] Consider the energy in space \(L^2_xL^2_7\), we have \[\begin{align} \frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}=(Q(F_1,\tilde{F}),\tilde{F}\langle v\rangle^{14})_{L^2_{x,v}}+(Q(\tilde{F}, F_2),\tilde{F}\langle v\rangle^{14})_{L^2_{x,v}}-\Big(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}}\nabla_v\tilde{F},\nabla_v(\tilde{F}\langle v\rangle^{14})\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\] Since \(\Pi(v)\nabla_v\langle v\rangle^{14}=14\langle v\rangle^{12}\Pi(v)v=0\), then \[\begin{align} \Big(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}}\nabla_v\tilde{F},\nabla_v(\tilde{F}\langle v\rangle^{14})\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}=\Big(\frac{\Pi(v)}{(1+|v|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}}\nabla_v\tilde{F},\nabla_v\tilde{F}\langle v\rangle^{14}\Big)_{L^2_{x,v}}\geq 0. \end{align}\] Thanks to 60 and ?? , ?? in Lemma 3, we obtain that \[\begin{align} \frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}+\lambda_0\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xD_1(7)}&\lesssim& \|\tilde{F}\|_{L^2_xL^2_7}\|F_2\|_{H^2_xD_1(8)}\|\tilde{F}\|_{L^2_xD_1(7)}+\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}\\ &\lesssim& C_\varepsilon\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}\|F_2\|^2_{H^2_xD_1(8)}+\varepsilon\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xD_1(7)}+\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}, \end{align}\] where \(\lambda_0\) depend on the lower bound of \(\|F(t,x,\cdot)\|_{L^1_v}\) and \(\|F\|_{L^\infty([0,{\mathcal{T}}],H^2_xL^2_8)}\). Choosing small \(\varepsilon>0\) implies that \[\begin{align} \frac{d}{dt}\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}\lesssim(1+\|F_2\|^2_{H^2_xD_1(8)})\|\tilde{F}\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}. \end{align}\] Since \(\|F_2\|^2_{H^2_xD_1(8)}\) is integrable by 60 , we have \(\|\tilde{F}(t)\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}\lesssim\|\tilde{F}(0)\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_7}=0\) for \(t\in[0,{\mathcal{T}}]\), i.e., \(F_1=F_2\). From 3 and the change of variables 12 between \(F\) and \(G\), it follows that the system \((g,V,T)\) is also unique.

We complete the proof of this theorem.

6 Sharp growth estimates for \(V\) and \(T\)↩︎

In this section, we establish the long-time behavior of \(V(t)\), \(T(t)\) and \(R(t)\) under the assumption that the smallness of \(g\) is propagated.

Lemma 11. Let \(k\geq 17\) and \(t_0=\frac{1}{160}\min\{1,T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}\}\) (see 36 ). If we make the a priori assumption that \(\|g(t)\|_{L^\infty([0,\infty),L^2_xL^2_5)}<\eta\) for some small \(\eta>0\), then for any \(\varepsilon>0\), there exists a constant \(C_{k,\varepsilon,T(0),V(0)}\) such that if \(|E|>C_{k,\varepsilon,T(0),V(0)}\), it holds that \[\begin{align} \label{atsmall} C_k\int_0^{t_0} S^2(t)dt<\varepsilon, \end{align}\qquad{(15)}\] where \(S(t)\) is defined in 45 and 42 with \(R_h, V_h, T_h\) replaced by \(R, V, T\). Meanwhile, for any \(t>t_0\), \[\begin{align} \label{longtimeTVR} \notag&&T'(t)>0,~~T(t)\geq \frac{T(0)}{2}+\frac{2c_0}{3|E|}(\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t)-\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t_0)),~~T(t)\leq \frac{3T(0)}{2}+\frac{c_2}{|E|}\ln(1+|E|t);\\ &&|V(t)-V(0)-Et|\leq 80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}+2000/|E|,\quad |R(t)|\leq c_1(1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t)^{-2},\quadfor\quad c_0,c_1,c_2>0. \end{align}\qquad{(16)}\]

Lemma 10 gives the behavior for the short interval \(t\in[0,t_0]\) with \(0<t_0<1\) depending on the lower bound of \(T(0)\). We now derive the estimates for \(t> t_0\). Firstly, thanks to 32 , 33 and 35 , we have \(|R(t)|\leq 20\times2^{\frac{3}{4}}T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}},t\leq t_0\) and \(|R(t)|\leq5\times 2^{3/2}(|V(t)|^{-2}+|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}),t>t_0\)(choosing \(k=3/2\)). Then by ?? , we have \[\begin{align} \label{Vttleqt0} |V(t)|\geq |V(0)+Et|-80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}},\quad t\leq t_0, \end{align}\tag{61}\] and \[\begin{align} |V(t)|\geq |V(0)+Et|-80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}-40\int_{t_0}^t\Big(\frac{1}{|V(\tau)|^2}+\frac{1}{|V(\tau)|^{\frac{3}{2}}}\Big)d\tau,\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\] There exists a large constant \(C_{T(0),V(0)}\) such that if \(|E|>C_{T(0),V(0)}\), then \[\begin{align} \label{con1} \frac{1}{2}|V(0)+Et|>80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}\quad and\quad\frac{1}{3}|V(0)+Et|\geq \max\Big\{1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t,\frac{8\times 720}{|E|}\Big\}\quadfor\quad t> t_0, \end{align}\tag{62}\] which leads that \[\begin{align} |V(t)|\geq \frac{1}{2} |V(0)+Et|-40\int_{t_0}^t\Big(\frac{1}{|V(\tau)|^2}+\frac{1}{|V(\tau)|^{\frac{3}{2}}}\Big)d\tau,\quad t> t_0. \end{align}\] Furthermore, \[\begin{align} \label{Vttgeqt0} |V(t)|\geq \frac{1}{3}|V(0)+Et|\geq 1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t,\quad t> t_0. \end{align}\tag{63}\] This is the lower bound for \(V(t)\). We can also get the upper bound of \(|V(t)|\) as follows: \[\begin{align} \label{upperboundV} |V(t)-V(0)-Et|\leq 80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}+80\int_{t_0}^t\frac{8}{(4+|E|\tau)^{\frac{3}{2}}}d\tau\leq 80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}+2000/|E|,\quad t\geq 0. \end{align}\tag{64}\]

We now aim to prove that \(T'(t)\geq 0\) for any \(t> t_0\). Leaving \(\tilde{v}=V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\), we recompute \[\begin{align} R(t)\cdot V(t)&=&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3}\frac{V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\cdot \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)(\mu+g)dvdx\\ &=&\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\cdot \int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)(\mu+g)dvdx\\ &&+\int_{|v|> \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\cdot \int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)(\mu+g)dvdx\\ &&+\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\cdot \int_{|v|> \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)(\mu+g)dvdx\\ &=&\sum_{i=1}^3D_i. \end{align}\] Since \(\frac{1}{2}|V(t)|\leq|\tilde{v}|\leq 2|V(t)|\) when \(|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\), we have \[\begin{align} D_1&\geq& |V(t)|^2\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{1}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\\ &&-|V(t)|T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{|v|}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}|v|(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\\ &&-T(t)\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}\frac{|v|}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle|\tilde{v}|^2}(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}|v|(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)\\ &\gtrsim& |V(t)|^{-1}\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)dvdx\Big)^2\\ &&-(|V(t)|^{-2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}+|V(t)|^{-3}T(t))\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)\langle v\rangle dvdx\Big)^2. \end{align}\] Recall from 34 that \[\begin{align} \label{T5} |T'(t)|\leq 40T(t)^{-3/8}(1 + T(t)^{1/8}), \end{align}\tag{65}\] whether \(T(t)\ge 1\) or \(T(t)\le 1\), we have \(T(t)\leq 1+T(0)+80t\). Thus for some large constant \(C_{T(0),V(0)}\), if \(|E|>C_{T(0),V(0)}\) and \(t>t_0\), we can obtain from 63 that \[\begin{align} T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\geq \frac{1}{3}(1+T(0)+80t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(0)+Et|>100, \end{align}\] which implies \[\begin{align} \int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)dvdx>\int_{|v|\leq 100}\mu dvdx-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|g|dvdx>\sqrt{3c_0} \end{align}\] since \(\|g(t)\|_{L^\infty([0,\infty),L^2_xL^2_3)}<\eta\). We can also get that \[\begin{align} &&(|V(t)|^{-2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}+|V(t)|^{-3}T(t))\Big(\int_{|v|\leq \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)\langle v\rangle dvdx\Big)^2\\ &\leq&|V(t)|^{-1}\big((1+T(0)+80t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(0)+Et|^{-1}+(1+T(0)+80t)|V(0)+Et|^{-2}\big)\|\mu+g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,\infty),L^2_xL^2_3)}\\ &\leq &c_0|V(t)|^{-1},\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\] Thus, we have \(D_1\geq 2c_0|V(t)|^{-1}\) for \(t>t_0\).

For \(D_2\) and \(D_3\), using the fact that \(|v|>\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\) and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we can obtain \[\begin{align} |D_2|&\leq& \Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle\tilde{v}\rangle^2|\tilde{v}|^2}dxdv\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\int_{|v|>\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}(\mu+g)^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}\langle v\rangle^{-2k}dxdv\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}}\\ &&\times(|V(t)|+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}})\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\mu+g|\langle v\rangle dxdv\\ &\lesssim& |V(t)|^{-k}T(t)^{\frac{k}{2}-\frac{3}{4}} (|V(t)|+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}) \end{align}\] and \[\begin{align} |D_3|&\leq& |V(t)|^{-2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\mu+g|dxdv \times (|V(t)|+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}})\int_{|v|>\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|}|\mu+g|\langle v\rangle^{1+k}\langle v\rangle^{-k}dxdv\\ &\lesssim& |V(t)|^{-2-k}(|V(t)|+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}})T(t)^{\frac{k}{2}}. \end{align}\] Choosing \(k=3\), for \(|E|>C_{T(0),V(0)}\), we have that \[\begin{align} |D_2|+|D_3|\lesssim|V(t)|^{-2}\leq c_0|V(t)|^{-1},\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\] Therefore, we conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{T39tgeq0} T'(t)=\frac{4}{3}R(t)\cdot V(t)>D_1-|D_2|-|D_3|\geq {c_0}|V(t)|^{-1}>0\quad for \quad t> t_0, \end{align}\tag{66}\] which imoleis that for all \(t\geq0\), \(T(t)\) has the lower bound \(T(0)/2\).

Furthermore, thanks to 64 , we have \[\begin{align} |V(t)|\leq |V(0)|+|E|t+80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}+2000/|E|\leq 1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t,\quad t>t_0, \end{align}\] if \(|E|>C_{T(0),V(0)}\). Then \[\begin{align} \label{lowerboundofT} T(t)\geq T(t_0)+c_0\int_{t_0}^t\frac{1}{|V(t)|}d\tau\geq \frac{T(0)}{2}+\frac{2c_0}{3|E|}(\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t)-\ln(1+\frac{3}{2}|E|t_0)),\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\tag{67}\] As for the upper bound of \(T(t)\), choosing \(k=3\) in 33 , we can derive that \[\begin{align} \label{upperboundofR} |R(t)|\leq 40(\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-3}T(t)^{\frac{3}{4}})\lesssim|V(t)|^{-2}. \end{align}\tag{68}\] On one hand, since \(|V(t)|^{-1} \lesssim(1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t)^{-1}\) for \(t>t_0\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{Rgeqt0} |R(t)|\leq c_1(1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t)^{-2},\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\tag{69}\] On the other hand, together with 63 , it leads to \[\begin{align} \label{T39geqt0} |T'(t)|\leq \frac{4}{3} |R(t)||V(t)|\lesssim|V(t)|^{-1}, \end{align}\tag{70}\] thus we have \[\begin{align} T(t)-T(t_0)\lesssim\int_{t_0}^t(1+\frac{1}{4}|E|\tau)^{-1} d\tau\lesssim\frac{1}{|E|}\ln(1+|E|t), \end{align}\] which yields that \[\begin{align} \label{upperboundofT} T(t)\leq \frac{3}{2} T(0)+\frac{c_2}{|E|}\ln(1+|E|t),\quad for some \quad c_2>0. \end{align}\tag{71}\] Therefore, we can get ?? by combining 67 , 71 , 69 and 64 .

Finally, we give the proof of ?? . We recall from 45 and 42 that \[\begin{align} &&S(t)\leq T^{-1}(t)|T'(t)|+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-1}\langle T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\rangle^{-1}\\ &&+\min\big\{T(t)^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{5}{4}},\\ \notag&&T(t)^{-1}\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-1}\langle T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-1}\big\}. \end{align}\] For the first on the right-hand side, by choosing \(k=\frac{5}{4}\) in 33 , we have \[\begin{align} |T'(t)|\lesssim|R(t)||V(t)|\lesssim\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-\frac{1}{4}}T(t)^{-\frac{1}{8}},\quad t\in(0,t_0]. \end{align}\] Noticing \(T(t)>T(0)/2\) for any \(t\in[0,t_0]\), by 61 , we have \[\begin{align} &&\int_0^{t_0} \big(T^{-1}(t)|T'(t)|\big)^2dt\lesssim C_{T(0)} \int_{0}^{t_0}\Big(\frac{1}{\langle V(t)\rangle^2}+\frac{1}{|V(t)|^{\frac{1}{2}}}\Big)dt\\ &\lesssim& C_{T(0)}\Big(\int_0^{t_0} \frac{1}{1+(|V(0)+Et|-80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}})^2}dt+\int_0^{t_0}\frac{1}{\big||V(0)+Et|-80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt\Big)\\ &:=&A_1+A_2. \end{align}\] We only give the detailed computation for \(A_2\). By an orthogonal transformation, we may assume without loss of generality that \(E=(|E|,0,0)\) and \(V(0)=(v_1,v_2,v_3)\) and denote \(80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}=T_0\), then \[\begin{align} &&\int_0^{t_0}\frac{1}{\big||V(0)+Et|-80T(0)^{-\frac{3}{4}}\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt=\int_0^{t_0}\frac{1}{\big||(|E|t+v_1,v_2,v_3)|-T_0\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt\\ &=&\frac{1}{|E|}\int_{v_1}^{|E|t_0+v_1}\frac{1}{\big||(t^2+v^2_2+v^2_3)^{\frac{1}{2}}-T_0\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt \leq \frac{2}{|E|}\int_0^{|E|t_0+|v_1|}\frac{1}{\big||(t^2+v^2_2+v^2_3)^{\frac{1}{2}}-T_0\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt. \end{align}\] Consider separately the cases \((t^2+v_2^2+v_3^2)^{1/2}-T_0\ge 0\) and \((t^2+v_2^2+v_3^2)^{1/2}-T_0<0\), we can deduce that \[\begin{align} \frac{2}{|E|}\int_0^{|E|t_0+|v_1|}\frac{1}{\big||(t^2+v^2_2+v^2_3)^{\frac{1}{2}}-T_0\big|^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt\leq \frac{4}{|E|}\int_0^{((|E|t_0+|v_1|)^2+v_2^2+v_3^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}+T_0}\frac{1}{t^{\frac{1}{2}}}dt\lesssim C_{T(0),V(0)}|E|^{-\frac{1}{2}}. \end{align}\] Similar argument can be applied to the estimate of \(A_1\) and we can get that \[\begin{align} \int_0^{t_0} \big(T^{-1}(t)|T'(t)|\big)^2dt\lesssim A_1+A_2\lesssim C_{T(0),V(0)}(|E|^{-1}+|E|^{-\frac{1}{2}}). \end{align}\]

For the second term, using that \(a\leq b_1\) and \(a\leq b_2\)(for \(a\geq0\)) implies \(a\leq b_1^{\frac{3}{4}} b_2^{\frac{1}{4}}\), we get from 32 and 33 that(choosing \(k=1\)) \[\begin{align} |R(t)|\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{9}{16}}(\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}})^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{1}{4}}\lesssim C_{T(0)}|V(t)|^{-\frac{1}{4}},\quad t\in[0,t_0], \end{align}\] which implies \(T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\lesssim C_{T(0)}|V(t)|^{-\frac{1}{4}}\) and we can obtain the same upper bound as above after integration. For the rest term, it is easy to get that \[\begin{align} T(t)^{-1}\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-1}\langle T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\rangle^{-1}\lesssim C_{T(0)}\langle V(t)\rangle^{-\frac{1}{4}} \end{align}\] and \[\begin{align} \min\big\{T(t)^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{5}{4}},T(t)^{-1}\langle V(t)\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-1}\langle T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|\rangle^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-1}\big\}\lesssim C_{T(0)}|V(t)|^{-\frac{1}{4}} \end{align}\] by using that \(a\leq b_1\) and \(a\leq b_2\) implies \(a\leq b_1^{\frac{3}{4}} b_2^{\frac{1}{4}}\). Therefore, we can conclude that \[\begin{align} \int_0^{t_0} S^2(t)dt\lesssim C_{T(0),V(0)}(|E|^{-1}+|E|^{-\frac{1}{2}}), \end{align}\] thus we can get the desired result ?? for large \(E\). It ends the proof of this lemma.

By Lemma 11, we obtain the following corollary:

Corollary 1. There exists \(\varepsilon_1>0\) depending only on \(k,k\geq 17\), the constant \(C_{k,\varepsilon_1,T(0),V(0)}\) such that if \(\|g_0\|_{X_k}<\varepsilon^2_1\) and the electric field \(E\) satisfies \(|E|>C_{k,\varepsilon_1,T(0),V(0)}\), then the solution of the Cauchy problem 13 can be extended to \(t\in[0,t_0]\) with \(t_0=\frac{1}{160}\min\{1,T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}\}\) and \[\begin{align} \label{gt0}\|g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,t_0],X_k)}+\lambda_0\|T(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}}g\|^2_{L^2([0,t_0],Y_k)}<\varepsilon_1^2. \end{align}\qquad{(17)}\]

To extend the solution up to time \(t_0\), we need to verify two facts: (i) the smallness of the solution is preserved, and (ii) starting from any time as the new initial instant, the solution can be extended over a fixed interval. Recalling the dependence of \({\mathcal{T}}\) in Lemma 11 and Theorem 3, i.e., 48 and 53 , we know that it depends on the lower bound of \(T(t)\). Since \(T(t)\geq T(0)/2\) when \(t\in[0,t_0]\), it suffices to ensure the smallness of \(g\). Using the energy method exactly as in the proof of ?? , we obtain \[\begin{align} \frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g\|^2_{X_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_k\|g\|_{X_k})\|g\|^2_{Y_k} \leq C_{k}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g\|^2_{X_k}+C_kS^2(t). \end{align}\] Multiply \(e^{-C_k\int_0^tT(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}d\tau}\) on both sides and integrate with respect to \(t\in[0,t_0]\), we have \[\begin{align} \|g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,t_0],X_k)}+2(\lambda_0-C_k\|g\|_{L^\infty([0,t_0],X_k)})\|T(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}}g\|^2_{L^2([0,t_0],Y_k)}\leq e^{C_k\int_0^{t_0}T(\tau)^{-\frac{3}{2}}d\tau}\big(\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}+C_k\int_0^{t_0}S^2(t)dt\big). \end{align}\] Under the a priori assumption that \(\|g\|_{L^\infty([0,t_0],X_k)}<\lambda_0/(2C_k)\) and the fact \(T(t)\geq T(0)/2\), we can derive that \[\begin{align} \|g\|^2_{L^\infty([0,t_0],X_k)}+\lambda_0\|T(t)^{-\frac{3}{4}}g\|^2_{L^2([0,t_0],Y_k)}&\leq& e^{C_kt_0T(0)^{-\frac{3}{2}}}\big(\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}+C_k\int_0^{t_0}S^2(t)dt\big)\\ &\leq&e^{C_k}\big(\|g_0\|^2_{X_k}+C_k\int_0^{t_0}S^2(t)dt\big), \end{align}\] since \(t_0< T(0)^{\frac{3}{2}}\). Therefore, ?? holds ture if \(e^{C_k}\varepsilon_1^2<\frac{1}{4}\) and \(e^{C_k}C_k\int_0^{t_0} S(t)^2dt<\frac{1}{4} \varepsilon_1^2\). The latter is ensured by Lemma 11. It ends the proof of this corollary.

In view of Corollary 1, it suffices to study the behavior of the solution for times \(t>t_0\), We therefore regard \(t_0\) as the initial time in what follows.

7 Coupled system↩︎

In this section we derive a-priori estimates for \(g\) starting from time \(t_0\) with \(\|g(t_0)\|_{X_k}<\varepsilon_1\). Since we will use the properties of \(V(t),T(t)\) repeatedly, we record it here.

\(\bullet\) The behavior of \(V(t)\) and \(T(t)\) when \(t>t_0\): Part I. For \(t>t_0\), it follows from 66 , 63 , 68 , 70 and 71 that there exists a constant \(C_{k,T(0),V(0)}\) such that if \(|E|>C_{k,T(0),V(0)}\), then \[\begin{align} &&0<c_0|V(t)|^{-1}< T'(t)\lesssim|V(t)|^{-1},~~T(t)\geq T(0)/2,~~|R(t)|\lesssim|V(t)|^{-2};\tag{72}\\ &&\notag\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-2}\\ &&+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-2}\big)\lesssim T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\leq 1\tag{73}. \end{align}\] For example, since \(|R(t)|\lesssim|V(t)|^{-2}\), then by 71 and 63 , we know that \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\lesssim(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-1})T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\\ &\lesssim& (\frac{3}{2} T(0)+\frac{c_2}{|E|}\ln(1+|E|t))^{\frac{1}{2}}(1+\frac{1}{4}|E|t)^{-1} T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\lesssim T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}, \end{align}\] if \(|E|>C_{T(0),V(0)}\).

We now resolve the equation 13 into a coupled system of \(g_1=g_1(t,x,v)\) and \(g_2=g_2(t,x,v)\) where \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) satisfy \[\begin{align} \label{coupg1} &\partial_t g_1(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g_1+(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot\nabla_v g_1(t,x,v)\\ =&\notag T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(L-A\chi_M)g_1+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}Q(g_1,g_1)+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) g_1\\ \notag&+T(t)^{-1}\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v (g_1+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g_2)\Big)+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(Q(\mu^\frac{1}{2} g_2,g_1)+Q(g_1,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g_2))+{\mathcal{H}}(\mu), \end{align}\tag{74}\] and \[\begin{align} \label{coupg2} &\partial_t g_2(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g_2=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mathcal{L}g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}A\chi_M(v)g_1+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Gamma(g_2,g_2)\\ \notag&-(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot(\nabla_vg_2-\frac{v}{2} g_2)+\frac{3}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)g_2 \end{align}\tag{75}\] with initial data \[\begin{align} g_1(t_0,x,v)=g(t_0,x,v),\quad g_2(t_0,x,v)=0, \end{align}\] where \(L\), \(\mathcal{L}\), \(\Gamma\) and \(A\chi_M\) are defined in 14 , ?? and ?? , and the function \({\mathcal{H}}(\mu)\) is defined as follows: \[\begin{align} {\mathcal{H}}(\mu):=-(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot\nabla_v \mu+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) \mu+T(t)^{-1}\mathrm{div} \Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big). \end{align}\] By setting \(g=g_1+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g_2\), it is direct to see that \(g\) is the solution to 13 with initial data \(g(t_0,x,v)\). We do not dwell here on the local existence for \((g_1,g_2)\) but focus on the a priori estimates. In fact, replacing \(\mu^{1/2}g_2\) by \(g-g_1\) in the equation for \(g_1\) and using the tools developed earlier makes the existence of \(g_1\) straightforward, the same applies to \(g_2\).

7.1 Evolution of \(g_1\).↩︎

Using 74 , we first derive the evolution of \(g_1\), leading to the following proposition:

Proposition 2. Let \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) be the solutions to the coupled system 74 and 75 , then for \(k\geq 17\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{evolutiong1} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\frac{\lambda_0}{2}-C_k\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}-C_k\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+2T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}\\ \notag&\leq& C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\\ &&+C_kT(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}\notag\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+C_kT(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}} \end{align}\qquad{(18)}\] for some constant \(\lambda_0>0\).

For any \(|\alpha|=0,2\), the equation for \(\partial^\alpha_x g_1\) is \[\begin{align} \label{paxg1} &&\partial_t \partial^\alpha_xg_1(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x \partial^\alpha_xg_1+(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot\nabla_v \partial^\alpha_xg_1(t,x,v)\\ &=&\notag T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(L-A\chi_M)\partial^\alpha_xg_1+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\partial^\alpha_xQ(g_1,g_1)+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) \partial^\alpha_xg_1+\partial^\alpha_x{\mathcal{H}}(\mu)+T(t)^{-1}\\ \notag&&\timesdiv\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v (\partial^\alpha_xg_1+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial^\alpha_xg_2)\Big)+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\partial^\alpha_xQ(\mu^\frac{1}{2} g_2,g_1)+\partial^\alpha_xQ(g_1,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g_2)\big). \end{align}\tag{76}\] Multiply \(\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1,k\geq 17\) to 76 , integrate in \((x,v)\in\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3\) and sum over \(|\alpha|=0,2\), the first two terms on the left-hand side gives \[\begin{align} \frac{1}{2} \frac{d}{dt}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\partial^\alpha_x g_1|^2\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx=\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}, \end{align}\] recalling the energy functional \(X_k\) in 19 .

We denote the rest terms including the third term on the left-hand side by \(I_1\) to \(I_7\) and estimate them one by one. For \(I_1\) and \(I_4\), by the estimates in Lemma 10, we have \[\begin{align} I_1&=&\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(k-4|\alpha|+\frac{3}{2})\|\partial^\alpha_xg_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}}+\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}(k-4|\alpha|)\|\partial^\alpha_xg_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|-1}}\\ &&-2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t)(k-4|\alpha|)\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)-2}v(\partial^\alpha_xg_1)^2dvdx. \end{align}\] A direct computation of \(I_4\) gives \[\begin{align} I_4=\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}(\partial^\alpha_xg_1)^2\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx=\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\|\partial^\alpha_xg_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_{k-4|\alpha|}}. \end{align}\] Thanks to 72 and the fact that \(k\geq 17\), it holds that \[\begin{align} \label{I14} I_1-I_4\geq 2T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}-C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\big)\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{2}}}. \end{align}\tag{77}\]

For \(I_2\) and \(I_3\), we have that \[\begin{align} I_2=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}L(\partial^\alpha_xg_1)\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1dvdx-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}A\chi_M\partial^\alpha_x g_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1dvdx\Big). \end{align}\] and \[\begin{align} I_3&=&T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(g_1,\partial^\alpha_xg_1),\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1\big)_{L^2_v}dx\\ &&+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha_1|\geq1}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg_1,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xg_1),\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1\big)_{L^2_v}dx. \end{align}\] Thanks to Lemma 5 and ?? in Lemma 7, \[\begin{align} \label{I23} I_2+I_3\leq T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Big(-\frac{\lambda_0}{2} \|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+C_k\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}\Big). \end{align}\tag{78}\]

For \(I_5\), since \(\partial^\alpha_x {\mathcal{H}}(\mu)=0\) for \(|\alpha|=2\), thus we have that \[\begin{align} I_5&=&\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}{\mathcal{H}}(\mu)g_1\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx=\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\big(\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v-2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t)\big)\cdot\nabla_v \mu+\frac{3}{2} T(t)^{-1} T'(t) \mu\Big)g_1\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx\\ &&+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}T(t)^{-1}div\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big)g_1\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx:=I_{5,1}+I_{5,2}. \end{align}\] Using the exponential decay of \(\mu\), it is direct to show that \[\begin{align} \label{I51} I_{5,1}\leq C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\big)\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\tag{79}\] For \(I_{5,2}\), since \[\begin{align} \left|T(t)^{-1}div\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v \mu\Big)\right|\lesssim\Big(\frac{T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|}+\frac{T(t)^{-1}}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\Big)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}. \end{align}\] It yields that \[\begin{align} |I_{5,2}|\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\frac{T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle|V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|}+\frac{T(t)^{-1}}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\Big)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}} g_1\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx:=I_{5,2,1}+I_{5,2,2}. \end{align}\] For \(I_{5,2,1}\), we split the integration domain \(\mathbb{R}^3\) into two parts: \(|T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|\leq \frac{1}{2}|V(t)|\) and \(|T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|> \frac{1}{2}|V(t)|\). For these two cases we have, respectively, \[\begin{align} \langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle^{-1}|V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|^{-1}\lesssim|V(t)|^{-2},\quad and\quad \mu^{\frac{1}{4}}\lesssim|v|^{-2}\lesssim T(t)|V(t)|^{-2}. \end{align}\] Then it holds that \[\begin{align} I_{5,2,1}&\lesssim& T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} \mu^{\frac{1}{2}}|g_1|\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} \frac{1}{|V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v|}\mu^{\frac{1}{4}}|g_1|\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx\\ &\lesssim& C_k\big(T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-2}\big)\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\] Similarly, we can derive that \[\begin{align} I_{5,2,2}\lesssim C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-2}\big)\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\] Then we obtain that \[\label{I52} |I_{5,2}|\leq C_k\big(T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-2}+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+|V(t)|^{-2}\big)\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}.\tag{80}\] Combining 79 , 80 and using 73 , we conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{I955} |I_5| \leq C_kT(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\tag{81}\]

For \(I_6\), we write it as \[\begin{align} I_6&=&-T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\Big(\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\cdot \nabla_v (\partial^\alpha_xg_1+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial^\alpha_xg_2)\Big)\nabla_v(\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_xg_1)dvdx\\ &=&-T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\big(\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}+2(k-4|\alpha|)\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|-1)}v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\big)dvdx\\ &&-T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial^\alpha_xg_2)\nabla_v(\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_xg_1)dvdx:=I_{6,1}+I_{6,2}. \end{align}\] For \(I_{6,1}\), since \(\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)\) is positive, by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we have that \[\begin{align} \label{I61} I_{6,1}&\leq&-\frac{3}{4}T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\cdot \nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ \notag &&+C_kT(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{1}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}(\partial^\alpha_xg_1)^2\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|-1)}dvdx\\ \notag&\leq&-\frac{3}{4}T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\cdot \nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ \notag&&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-1}}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\big). \end{align}\tag{82}\] In the last step we used the same splitting of the integration domain that was employed to estimate \(I_{5,2,1}\).

For \(I_{6,2}\), due to the exponential decay of \(\mu\) and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we can derive that \[\begin{align} \label{I62} \notag|I_{6,2}|&\leq& \frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\cdot \nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\big(\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-1}}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\big). \end{align}\tag{83}\] Combining 82 and 83 , we conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{I6} \notag I_6&\leq& -\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{-1}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{\Pi(V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v)}{\langle V(t)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\rangle}\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\cdot \nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}dvdx\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\big(\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\big). \end{align}\tag{84}\]

For \(I_7\), we first write it as \[\begin{align} I_7&=&T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\sum_{\alpha_1+\alpha_2=\alpha}\Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg_2,\partial^{\alpha_2}_xg_1),\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1\big)_{L^2_v}dx\\ &&+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(Q(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg_1,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial^{\alpha_2}_xg_2),\langle v\rangle^{2(k-4|\alpha|)}\partial^\alpha_x g_1\big)_{L^2_v}dx\Big). \end{align}\] Due to ?? , ?? , we have that \[\begin{align} \label{I7} \notag|I_7|&\leq&C_kT(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_k}\big)\\ &\leq&C_kT(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\big). \end{align}\tag{85}\]

Patching together the estimates of \(I_1\) to \(I_7\), i.e., 77 , 78 , 81 ,84 and 85 , we can conclude the desired result ?? .

7.2 Evolution of \(g_2\).↩︎

Next, using 75 , we derive the evolution of \(g_2\) and begin with the following lemmas.

Lemma 12. Let \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) be the solutions to the coupled system 74 and 75 , then for \(k\geq 17\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{cEkcDk} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\frac{\lambda_0}{2}-C_k\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_{17}})\|g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_k}+\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\\ \notag&\leq& C_{k}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k})+C_k(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}. \end{align}\qquad{(19)}\] Moreover, we also have \[\begin{align} \label{cE0cD0} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_0\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_0}+\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_1}\\ \notag&\lesssim& T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_0}+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{\frac{1}{2}}}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|^2_{H^2_{x}L^2_v}, \end{align}\qquad{(20)}\] where the projection \(\mathbf{P}\) is defined in ?? .

For any \(|\alpha|=0,2\), the equation for \(\partial^\alpha_xg_2\) is \[\begin{align} \label{paxg2} &&\partial_t \partial^\alpha_xg_2(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x \partial^\alpha_xg_2=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mathcal{L}\partial^\alpha_xg_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}A\chi_M(v)\partial^\alpha_xg_1\\ &&\notag+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\partial^\alpha_x\Gamma(g_2,g_2)-(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot(\nabla_v\partial^\alpha_xg_2-\frac{v}{2} \partial^\alpha_xg_2)+\frac{3}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\partial^\alpha_xg_2. \end{align}\tag{86}\] We first prove the estimates ?? . Multiply \(\langle v\rangle^{2k}\partial^\alpha_x g_2,k\geq17\) to 86 , integrate in \((x,v)\in\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3\) and sum over \(|\alpha|=0,2\). Then the first two terms on the left-hand side give \[\begin{align} \frac{1}{2} \frac{d}{dt}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}|\partial^\alpha_x g_2|^2\langle v\rangle^{2k}dvdx=\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k}. \end{align}\]

We denote the rest terms by \(J_{1,k}\) to \(J_{5,k}\) and estimate them one by one. For \(J_{1,k}\), by ?? in Lemma 4, we have that \[\begin{align} \label{J1} J_{1,k}=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big({\mathcal{L}}\partial^\alpha_xg_2,\partial^\alpha_xg_2\langle v\rangle^{2k}\big)_{L^2_v}dx\leq T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Big( -\lambda_0\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}+C_k\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\Big). \end{align}\tag{87}\]

For \(J_{2,k}\), we write it as \[\begin{align} J_{2,k}=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|=0,2}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3} \mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}A\chi_M(v)\partial^\alpha_xg_1\langle v\rangle^{2k}\partial^\alpha_xg_2dvdx. \end{align}\] Noticing that \(\chi_M\) has compact support, thus it has the upper bound \[\begin{align} \label{J2} J_{2,k}\leq \varepsilon T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+ C_{\varepsilon,k}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k} \end{align}\tag{88}\] for any \(\varepsilon>0\). In the below, we choose \(\varepsilon=\lambda_0/2\).

For \(J_{3,k}\), we write it as \[\begin{align} J_{3,k}=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\sum_{\alpha_1+\alpha_2=\alpha}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\Gamma(\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg_2,\partial^{\alpha_1}_xg_2),\langle v\rangle^{2k}\partial^\alpha_xg_2\big)_{L^2_v}dx. \end{align}\] Due to ?? in Lemma 7, we have that \[\begin{align} \label{J3} J_{3,k}\leq C_kT(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}} \|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_{17}}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}. \end{align}\tag{89}\]

For \(J_{4,k}\) and \(J_{5,k}\), similar to the estimate of \(I_1\) and \(I_4\) in Proposition 2, we can derive that \[\begin{align} \label{J45} J_{4,k}+J_{5,k}&\leq& -\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}. \end{align}\tag{90}\] Combining the estimates 87 , 88 , 89 and 90 , we obtain the desired result ?? .

The similar argument can be applied to obtain ?? , the only difference is the estimate for \(J_{1,0}\), where we appeal to ?? instead of ?? . We omit the details and list the resulting bounds for each term as follows. \[\begin{align} &&J_{1,0}\leq -T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lambda_0\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0},~ J_{2,0}\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_0},\\ &&J_{3,0}\leq C_0T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}} \|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0},~ J_{4,0}+J_{5,0}\leq -\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{1}}+C\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{\frac{1}{2}}}. \end{align}\] Decomposing \(g_2=\mathbf{P} g_2+(\mathbf{I}-\mathbf{P})g_2\) and noticing that \(\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\lesssim\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|_{H^2_{x}L^2_v}\), we arrive at ?? and the proof of the lemma is complete.

Note that ?? only yields dissipation for the microscopic component, we still lack dissipation of the macroscopic part \(\mathbf{P}g_2\). To obtain it, we first derive the macroscopic equations.

Lemma 13. We rewrite 75 as \[\begin{align} \label{coupg22} &&\partial_t g_2(t,x,v)+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x g_2=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mathcal{L}g_2+r(g_1,g_2) \end{align}\qquad{(21)}\] with \[\label{rg2} \begin{align} r(g_1,g_2)&=T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\mu^{-\frac{1}{2}}A\chi_M(v)g_1+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Gamma(g_2,g_2)\\ &-(-\frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)v+2T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}R(t))\cdot(\nabla_vg_2-\frac{v}{2} g_2)+\frac{3}{2}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)g_2, \end{align}\qquad{(22)}\] and the macroscopic part \(\mathbf{P}g_2=\big(a^{g_2}+b^{g_2}\cdot v+c^{g_2}(|v|^2-3)\big)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\) with \[\begin{align} \label{afbfcfa} a^{g_2}(t,x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}g_2\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv,~b^{g_2}(t,x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}g_2v\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv,~and~c^{g_2}(t,x)=\frac{1}{6}\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}g_2(|v|^2-3)\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v)dv. \end{align}\qquad{(23)}\] Then it holds that \[\label{macroeq} \left\{ \begin{align} &\partial_t a^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x\cdot b^{g_2}=\mathsf{T}_{11};\\ &\partial_t b^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}(\nabla_x a^{g_2}+2\nabla_xc^{g_2})=\mathsf{T}_{21};\\ &\partial_t c^{g_2}+\frac{1}{3}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x\cdot b^{g_2}=\mathsf{T}_{31};\\ &\partial_t c^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial_i b^{g_2}_i=(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}+\partial_t(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii};\\ &T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}(\partial_{j}b^{g_2}_i+\partial_i b^{g_2}_j)=(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}+\partial_t (\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij},~~i\neq j;\\ &T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x c^{g_2}=\mathsf{T}_{51}+\partial_t\mathsf{T}_{52}, \end{align}\right.\qquad{(24)}\] where \(\mathsf{T}_{k1}\) and \(\mathsf{T}_{l2}\), with \(1\le k\le 5\) and \(l=4,5\), are defined as follows: for \(i,j=1,2,3\), \(i\neq j\), \[\label{Tij1} \left\{ \begin{align} &\mathsf{T}_{11}=(r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}})_{L^2_v},~~\mathsf{T}_{31}=\frac{1}{6}\big(-T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(|v|^2-3)\big)_{L^2_v};\\ &\mathsf{T}_{21}=\big(-T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}v\big)_{L^2_v},~~\mathsf{T}_{52}=-\big((\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)_{L^2_v};\\ &\mathsf{T}_{51}=\big(-T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)_{L^2_v}. \end{align}\right.\qquad{(25)}\] \[\label{Tij2} \left\{ \begin{align} &(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}=\big(-(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x)(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}v_iv_j\big)_{L^2_v};\\ &(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}=\big(-(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x)(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v^2_i-1}{2}\big)_{L^2_v};\\ &(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}=-\big((\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}v_iv_j\big)_{L^2_v},\quad (\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}=\big(-(\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v^2_i-1}{2}\big)_{L^2_v}. \end{align}\right.\qquad{(26)}\]

The proof proceeds in a standard way. Splitting \[\begin{align} g_2=\mathbf{P}g_2+(\mathbf{I-P})g_2=[a^{g_2}+b^{g_2}\cdot v+c^{g_2}(|v|^2-3)]\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}+(\mathbf{I-P})g_2. \end{align}\] We rewrite ?? as \[\begin{align} \label{macro1} \notag&&(\partial_ta^{g_2}+\partial_t b^{g_2}\cdot v+\partial_t c^{g_2}(|v|^2-3))\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x(a^{g_2}+b^{g_2}\cdot v+c^{g_2}(|v|^2-3))\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\\ &=&-(\partial_t+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x)(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2). \end{align}\tag{91}\] It is noteworthy that \[\begin{align} \label{macro4} \int_{\mathbb{R}^3}(1,v_i^2,v_i^2v_j^2,v_i^4,|v|^2,|v|^4)\mu dv=(1,1,1,3,3,15),\quad i,j=1,2,3,i\neq j, \end{align}\tag{92}\] and \[\begin{align} \label{macro3} &&\big((\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\psi(v)\big)_{L^2_v}=0,~\big({\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\psi(v)\big)_{L^2_v}=0,\\ \notag&&\big(\partial_t(\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\psi(v)\big)_{L^2_v}=0,~\big(v\cdot\nabla_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\big)_{L^2_v} = 0,\quadfor\quad\psi=\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(1,v,|v|^2). \end{align}\tag{93}\] Let us prove the first equation in ?? as a typical case. Taking inner product of 91 with \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\) over \(v\in\mathbb{R}^3\) and by 92 , we have \[\begin{align} \notag\partial_t a^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x\cdot b^{g_2}=&\big(-(\partial_t+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x)(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\big)\\ =&(r(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}):=\mathsf{T}_{11}, \end{align}\] where the last step follows from 93 .

Analogously, taking inner product of 91 with \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}v_iv_j,i\neq j\) and \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}(v^2_i-1)/2,i=1,2,3\) over \(v\in\mathbb{R}^3\), then with \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}v,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{|v|^2-3}{6}\) and finally with \(\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\). By subsequently applying 92 and 93 , we can obtain the remaining equations outlined in ?? .

Moreover, we have the following upper bound for the terms \(\mathsf{T}_{k1}\) and \(\mathsf{T}_{l2}\) with \(1\leq k\leq 5\) and \(l=4,5\).

Lemma 14. For any multi-index \(\alpha\) with \(|\alpha|\leq 1\), we have that \[\begin{align} \label{Tijupperbound} \notag&&\sum_{k=1}^5\|\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{k1}\|^2_{L^2_x}\leq C_\alpha\Big(T(t) \|\langle v\rangle^{-2}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\Big),\\ &&\sum_{l=4,5}\|{\langle D_x\rangle}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{l2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\leq C_\alpha\|\langle v\rangle^{-2}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}, \end{align}\qquad{(27)}\] where \[\label{ei} \begin{align} &e_1=1,e_2=v_1,e_3=v_2,e_4=v_3,e_5=v_1^2,e_6=v_2^2,e_7=v_3^2,\\ &e_8=v_1v_2,e_9=v_1v_3,e_{10}=v_2v_3,e_{11}=v_1|v|^2,e_{12}=v_2|v|^2,e_{13}=v_3|v|^2. \end{align}\qquad{(28)}\]

We only give the proof of \(\mathsf{T}_{51}\) with \(|\alpha|\leq 1\) since the similar argument can be applied for the rest terms. Noticing that \[\begin{align} \partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{51}=\big(-T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}v\cdot\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbf{I-P})\partial^\alpha_xg_2+\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)_{L^2_v}, \end{align}\] and we have \[\begin{align} &&\big|\big(v\cdot\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2,\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\lesssim\|\langle v\rangle^{-2}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|_{L^2_{v}},\\ &&\big|\big({\mathcal{L}}(\partial^\alpha_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)_{L^2_v}\big|\lesssim\|\langle v\rangle^{-2}\partial^\alpha_x(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|_{L^2_{v}}, \end{align}\] where we used ?? and ?? in the second inequality. Together with the fact \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\frac{v(|v|^2-5)}{10}\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\lesssim\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx, \end{align}\] we obtain the desired results.

We now establish the macroscopic estimates.

Lemma 15. Let \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) be the solutions to the coupled system 74 and 75 , there exists a functional \({\mathcal{G}}\) satisfying \(|{\mathcal{G}}|\lesssim\|g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}\) and \[\label{macroscopic} \frac{d}{dt}{\mathcal{G}}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}\lesssim T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \big(\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_4}\big)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx.\qquad{(29)}\]

We will complete the proof in several steps.

Step 1: Control of \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}\). Applying \(\partial^\alpha_x,|\alpha|\leq 1\) on both sides of the last equation in ?? and taking inner product with \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\) over \(x\in\mathbb{T}^3\), we deduce that \[\begin{align} \label{a001} T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}=\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}dx-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\partial^\alpha_x \partial_t c^{g_2}dx+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{51}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}dx. \end{align}\tag{94}\] For the term \(\partial_t\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}\) in 94 , it follows from the third equation in ?? that \[\begin{align} \partial_t \partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}=-\frac{1}{3}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x\cdot\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{31}. \end{align}\] By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, for any small \(\varepsilon>0\), we have \[\begin{align} -\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\partial^\alpha_x \partial_t c^{g_2}dx&=&\frac{1}{3}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\nabla_x\cdot\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}dx-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\partial^\alpha_x \mathsf{T}_{31}dx\\ &\leq&\varepsilon T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+C_\varepsilon(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\|^2_{L^2_x}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\|\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{31}\|^2_{L^2_x}). \end{align}\] For the third term on the right-hand side of 94 , also by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we have \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{51}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}dx\leq \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+2 T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\|\partial^\alpha_x \mathsf{T}_{51}\|^2_{L^2_x}. \end{align}\] Finally, by ?? , we can conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{c} \notag&&\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\leq \frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}dx+\varepsilon T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\\ &&+ C_{\alpha,\varepsilon}\Big( T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\Big), \end{align}\tag{95}\] where we note that \(\|\langle v\rangle^{-2}(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_2}\lesssim\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\).

Step 2: Control of \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}\). Next, we use the forth and fifth equations in ?? to compute that \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Delta_x b_i^{g_2}=T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{j\neq i}\partial_{jj}b_i^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial_{ii}b_i^{g_2}\\ &=&\sum_{j\neq i}\big(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}(-\partial_{ij}b_j^{g_2})+\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}+\partial_t\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}\big)+\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}+\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}-\partial_t\partial_i c^{g_2}\\ &=&\sum_{j\neq i}\big(\partial_t\partial_ic^{g_2}-\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{jj}-\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)+\sum_{j\neq i}\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}+\partial_t\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}\big)+\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}+\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}-\partial_t\partial_i c^{g_2}\\ &=&\sum_{j\neq i}\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}+\partial_t\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}-\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{jj}-\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)-T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\partial_{ii} b_i^{g_2}+2\big(\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}+\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}\big). \end{align}\] Applying \(\partial^\alpha_x\) on both sides and taking inner product with \(\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}\) over \(x\in\mathbb{T}^3\), and summation over \(i=1,2,3\), we deduce that \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}=\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\sum_{j\neq i}\partial^\alpha_x\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}+\partial_t\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}-\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{jj}-\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)\partial^\alpha_x b_i^{g_2}dx\Big)\\ &&-\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}|\partial_i\partial^\alpha_x b_i^{g_2}|^2dx-2\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\big(\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}+\partial_t\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}\big)\partial^\alpha_x b_i^{g_2}dx\Big)\\ &\leq& \sum_{j\neq i}\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\big(-\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}+\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx+2\sum_{i=1}^3\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx\\ &&+\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\sum_{j\neq i}\partial^\alpha_x\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ij}-\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{jj}\big)\partial^\alpha_x b_i^{g_2}dx\Big)-\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(2\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{41})_{ii}\partial^\alpha_x b_i^{g_2}dx\Big)\\ &&+\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\sum_{j\neq i}\partial^\alpha_x\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}-\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big) \partial_t\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx\Big)+\sum_{i=1}^3\Big(2\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii} \partial_t\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx\Big). \end{align}\] For the term \(\partial_t\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\), by the second equation in ?? , we have that \[\begin{align} \partial_t \partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}(\nabla_x \partial^\alpha_xa^{g_2}+2\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xc^{g_2})=\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{21}, \end{align}\] Then by ?? and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we conclude that \[\label{b} \begin{align} &\frac{1}{2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\leq \sum_{j\neq i}\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\big(-\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}+\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx+2\sum_{i=1}^3\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx\\ &+\varepsilon T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\big(\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\big)+C_{\varepsilon,\alpha}\Big( T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\Big). \end{align}\tag{96}\]

Step 3: Control of \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_xa^{g_2}\). For \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\), from the second and the sixth equations in ?? , we have that \[\begin{align} T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x a^{g_2}=-\partial_tb^{g_2}+\mathsf{T}_{21}-2\mathsf{T}_{51}-2\partial_t\mathsf{T}_{52}. \end{align}\] Applying \(\partial^\alpha_x\) on both sides and taking inner product with \(\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\) over \(\mathbb{T}^3\), we deduce that \[\begin{align} &T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}=-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial_t (\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{21}-2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{51})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx\\ =&-\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\nabla_x(\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52})\partial^\alpha_x \partial_ta^{g_2}dx+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{21}-2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{51})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx. \end{align}\] In view of ?? , we have \[\begin{align} \partial_t \partial^\alpha_xa^{g_2}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla_x\cdot \partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}=\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{11}. \end{align}\] Thus by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and ?? , we can conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{a} \frac{1}{2}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}&\leq& -\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx+2T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\\ \notag&&+C_\alpha\Big( T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\Big). \end{align}\tag{97}\]

Step 4: Macroscopic estimates. Compute \(\eqref{c}+\kappa\times \eqref{b}+\eqref{a}\) for some constant \(\kappa\) and summation over \(|\alpha|\leq 1\), we have \[\begin{align} &&\frac{d}{dt}{\mathcal{G}}+T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\Big((\frac{1}{2}-\kappa\varepsilon)\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+(\frac{\kappa}{2}-2-\varepsilon)\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+(\frac{1}{2}-\kappa\varepsilon)\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)\\ &\leq&C_{\varepsilon,\alpha,\kappa}\Big( T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\Big). \end{align}\] with \[\begin{align} \label{cG} {\mathcal{G}}&=&\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\Big(-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52}\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}dx+\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(\partial^\alpha_xb^{g_2}+2\partial^\alpha_x\mathsf{T}_{52})\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}dx\\ \notag&&+\kappa\sum_{j\neq i}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\big(\partial_j(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ij}-\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{jj}\big)\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx+2\kappa\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\partial^\alpha_x\partial_i(\mathsf{T}_{42})_{ii}\partial^\alpha_xb_i^{g_2}dx\Big). \end{align}\tag{98}\] Thus we can choose \(\kappa=8\) and \(\varepsilon=1/32\) to get that \[\begin{align} \label{cG2} \notag &&\frac{d}{dt}{\mathcal{G}}+\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\Big(\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)\\ &\lesssim& T(t)^{\frac{1}{2}} \|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx. \end{align}\tag{99}\]

On one hand, thanks to 98 and ?? , \({\mathcal{G}}\) has the upper bound \[\begin{align} \label{cGupperbound} |{\mathcal{G}}|\lesssim\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{H^{2}_xL^2_{v}}+\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\Big(\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)\lesssim\|g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}. \end{align}\tag{100}\] On the other hand, by 15 and the fact \(g=g_1+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}g_2\), we can derive that \[\begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{T}^3}(a^{g_2}(x),b^{g_2}(x),c^{g_2}(x))dx=-\int_{\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3}g_1(1,v,|v|^2-3)dvdx=:\big(\bar{a},\bar{b},\bar{c}). \end{align}\] Then by Poincaré inequality in \(\mathbb{T}^3\) and the bound \(|\bar{a}|^2+|\bar{b}|^2+|\bar{c}|^2\lesssim\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_{x}L^2_{4}}\), we have that \[\begin{align} &&\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\Big(\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x a^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\nabla_x\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)\\ &\gtrsim& \sum_{|\alpha|\leq 2}\Big(\|\partial^\alpha_x( a^{g_2}-\bar{a})\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\partial^\alpha_x (b^{g_2}-\bar{b})\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\partial^\alpha_x (c^{g_2}-\bar{c})\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)\\ &\gtrsim& \sum_{|\alpha|\leq 2}\Big(\|\partial^\alpha_xa^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\partial^\alpha_x b^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}+\|\partial^\alpha_x c^{g_2}\|^2_{L^2_x}\Big)-\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_4}. \end{align}\] Together with 99 and 100 , this yields the desired result ?? and completes the proof of the lemma.

Combining Lemma 12 and Lemma 15, we can derive the following proposition:

Proposition 3. Let \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) be the solutions to the coupled system 74 and 75 , then for \(k\geq 17\), we have \[\begin{align} \label{barcEk2} \notag&&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_2-C_k\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}})\|g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_k}+\lambda_2T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\leq C_k\Big((T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lambda_2^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}})\\ &&\times \|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\Big) \end{align}\qquad{(30)}\] for some constants \(\lambda_2\gtrsim_k\min\{T(0)^2,1\}\) and the energy norm \(\|\cdot\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}\) satisfies \[\min\{T(0)^2,1\}\|\cdot\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k}\lesssim_k \|\cdot\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}\lesssim\|\cdot\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k}.\]

Firstly, we compute \(\eqref{cE0cD0}+\frac{\kappa_1}{2}T(t)^{-2}\times\eqref{macroscopic}\) to get that \[\begin{align} \label{001} \notag&&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\big(\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}+\kappa_1T(t)^{-2}{\mathcal{G}}\big)+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_0-C_0\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}-C\kappa_1)\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\kappa_1-C\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\\ \notag&&\times\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+\frac{1}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_1}\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_0}+\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_4})+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|)\\ &&\times \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{\frac{1}{2}}}+\kappa_1T(t)^{-3}T'(t){\mathcal{G}}+\kappa_1T(t)^{-\frac{5}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx. \end{align}\tag{101}\] On one hand, since \(|\mathcal{G}|\lesssim \|g_2\|_{H^2_xL^2_v}^2=\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_0}^2\) and \(T(t)\geq T(0)/2\)(see 72 ), we can fix \(\kappa_1=\min\{T(0)^2,1\}\times\kappa_2\) with a sufficiently small \(\kappa_2>0\) such that \(C\kappa_1\leq C\kappa_2\le \lambda_0/4\) and the functional \[\|g_2\|_{\bar{\mathcal{E}}_0}^2:=\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_0}^2+\kappa_1 T(t)^{-2}\mathcal{G}=\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_0}^2+\kappa_2 \min\{T(0)^2,1\} T(t)^{-2}\mathcal{G}\] is equivalent to \(\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_0}^2\). On the other hand, by the definition of \(r(g_1,g_2)\) in ?? and applying ?? to the term \(\Gamma(g_2,g_2)\), we obtain \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{-\frac{5}{2}}\sum_{|\alpha|\leq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{13}\int_{\mathbb{T}^3}\big(\partial^\alpha_xr(g_1,g_2),\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}e_i\big)^2_{L^2_v}dx\\ &\lesssim& T(t)^{-\frac{5}{2}}\Big(T(t)^{-3}\|g_1\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+T(t)^{-3}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|)^2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}\\ &\lesssim& T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}(\|g_1\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}. \end{align}\] In the last inequality we used 73 . Plug these into 101 , we have \[\begin{align} \notag&&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|_{\bar{\mathcal{E}}_0}^2+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\frac{3}{4}\lambda_0-C_0\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\kappa_2\min\{T(0)^2,1\}-C\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\\ \notag&&\times\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_0}+\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_4})+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\\ &&\times \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{\frac{1}{2}}}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}(\|g_1\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}). \end{align}\] Noticing \(\|(\mathbf{I-P})g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_0}+\|\mathbf{P}g_2\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}\geq c_0 \|g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_0}\) and \(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\|g_1\|_{Y_0}\leq \varepsilon\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+\varepsilon^{-1}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_0}\) for any \(\varepsilon>0\), if we set \(2\lambda_1:=c_0\min\{\frac{3}{4}\lambda_0, \kappa_2T(0)^2,\kappa_2\}\) and choose \(\varepsilon=\lambda_1\), we can get \[\begin{align} \label{barcE0} &\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_0}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_1-C\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0})\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\lesssim T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_1^{-1}\|g_1\|^2_{Y_0}+\|g_1\|^2_{L^2_xL^2_4})\\ &\notag+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t)) \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{\frac{1}{2}}}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}(\|g_1\|^2_{H^2_xL^2_v}+\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_{0}}) \end{align}\tag{102}\] with the positive constant \(1>\lambda_1\gtrsim\min\{T(0)^2,1\}\).

Next, we compute \(\eqref{barcE0}+\kappa_3\eqref{cEkcDk}\) with \(0<\kappa_3<1\) to get that \[\begin{align} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}(\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_0}+\kappa_3\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k})+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_1-C_0\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}-\kappa_3C_k)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+\kappa_3T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\frac{\lambda_0}{2}-C_k\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_{17}})\|g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_k}\\ &&+\frac{\kappa_3}{4}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\leq C_k(T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lambda_1^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}})\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}\\ &&+C_k(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+C_kT(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}, \end{align}\] where we use the fact \(\|g_1\|_{Y_0}+\|g_1\|_{L^2_xL^2_4}+\|g_1\|_{H^2_xL^2_v}\lesssim\|g_1\|_{Y_k},k\geq 17\). Fixing \(\kappa_3\) such that \(\kappa_3C_k=\lambda_1/2\), then \(\kappa_3\gtrsim_k \lambda_1\gtrsim\min\{T(0)^2,1\}\) and the functional \[\begin{align} \label{func1} \min\{T(0)^2,1\}\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_k}^2\lesssim_k \kappa_3 \|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_k}^2 \leq\|g_2\|_{\bar{\mathcal{E}}_k}^2:=\|g_2\|_{\bar{\mathcal{E}}_0}^2+\kappa_3 \|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_k}^2\leq \|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_k}^2 \end{align}\tag{103}\] is equivalent to \(\|g_2\|_{\mathcal{E}_k}^2\). Rearranging terms, we can obtain \[\begin{align} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\lambda_2-C_k\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}})\|g_2\|^2_{\mathcal{D}_k}+\lambda_2T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\leq C_k\Big((T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lambda_2^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}})\\ &&\times\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+T(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\Big) \end{align}\] with the positive constant \(\lambda_2\gtrsim_k \min\{T(0)^2,1\}\).

The proof of the proposition is complete.

Now we state the main result for this coupled system as follows.

Theorem 4. Let \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) be the solutions to the coupled system 74 and 75 , then for \(k\geq 17\), there exist equivalent energy and dissipation norms \[\label{normT40041} \begin{align} &\min\{T(0)^6,1\}(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k})\lesssim\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}\lesssim\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k},\\ &\min\{T(0)^6,1\}(\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k})\lesssim\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}\lesssim\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}, \end{align}\qquad{(31)}\] such that \[\begin{align} \label{energyinequality} \notag &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\lambda_0-C_k\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\big)\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}+T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\big(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\big)\\ \notag &\leq&C_k(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+C_kT(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\\ \notag &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+C_k T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}} \end{align}\qquad{(32)}\] for some constants \(\lambda_0>0\), \(\kappa_4\gtrsim_k\min\{T(0)^4,1\}\) and \(\lambda_2\gtrsim_k \min\{T(0)^2,1\}\).

Combining Proposition 2 and Proposition 3, we compute \(\eqref{evolutiong1}+\kappa_4\times \eqref{barcEk2}\) with \(0<\kappa_4<1\) to get that \[\begin{align} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa_4\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k})+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\frac{\lambda_0}{2}-C_k(\|g_1\|_{X_{17}}+\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}})-C_k\kappa_4\lambda_2^{-1}-C_k \kappa_4T(t)^{-4}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}\\ &&+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(\kappa_4\lambda_2-\kappa_4C_k\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}}-C_k\|g_1\|_{X_{17}})\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_{k}}+T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\big(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\big)\\ &\leq&C_k(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+C_kT(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+C_kT(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}, \end{align}\] where we use the fact \(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\leq \|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}\) and \(\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\leq \|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}}\). Choosing \(\kappa_4\) satisfies \(\kappa_4(C_k\lambda_2^{-1}+C_kT(t)^{-4})=\lambda_0/4\). Note that \(\lambda_2\gtrsim_k \min\{T(0)^2,1\}\) and \(T(t)\geq T(0)/2\), then \(\kappa_4\gtrsim_k \min\{ T(0)^4,1\}\) and by 103 , the functional \[\begin{align} \label{func2} \min\{T(0)^6,1\}(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{{\mathcal{E}}}_k})\lesssim_k \|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}:=\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa_4\|g_2\|^2_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}\lesssim\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{{\mathcal{E}}}_k}. \end{align}\tag{104}\] Noticing that \[\begin{align} \|g_1\|_{X_{17}}+\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}}\lesssim_k \kappa_4^{-\frac{1}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}, \quad \|g_1\|_{X_{17}}+\kappa_4\|g_2\|_{\bar{{\mathcal{E}}}_{17}}\lesssim_k \|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}, \end{align}\] we can obtain from above \[\begin{align} &&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big(\frac{\lambda_0}{4}-C_k\kappa_4^{-\frac{1}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}\\ &&+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(1-C_k\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}})\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_{k}}+T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\big(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\big)\\ &\leq&C_k(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t))\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}+C_kT(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\\ &&+C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}+C_k T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}. \end{align}\] Finally, we define the dissipation norm \[\begin{align} \min\{T(0)^6,1\}(\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}) \lesssim\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}:=\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}\lesssim\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}, \end{align}\] and since \(\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\geq\kappa_4^{-\frac{1}{2}}\), we can get the desired result.

8 Proof of the main results↩︎

In this section we merge the a-priori estimates of Section 7 to prove global existence and decay. We still list below the properties of \(V(t),T(t)\) that will be frequently used.

\(\bullet\) The behavior of \(V(t)\) and \(T(t)\) when \(t>t_0\): Part II. For \(t>t_0\), there exists a constant \(C_{k,T(0),V(0)}\) such that if \(|E|>C_{k,T(0),V(0)}\), then \[\begin{align} &&T(t)\gtrsim T(0),~~c_0|V(t)|^{-1}\leq T'(t)\lesssim|V(t)|^{-1},|R(t)|\leq |V(t)|^{-2};\tag{105}\\ &&T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lesssim T(t)^{-1}T'(t);\tag{106}\\ &&C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)(1+T(0)^{-30}+T(0)^{-6})\leq \frac{\lambda_0 }{5} T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}};\tag{107}\\ &&T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-2}\lesssim(1+|E|t)^{-2},\tag{108} \end{align}\] where \(\lambda_0\) is defined in Theorem 4.

We will use ?? to close the energy estimates. Denote the terms on the right-hand side by \(R_i,i=1,\cdots,5\) and we first handle \(R_4\). Since \[\begin{align} R_4&=&C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_0}\leq C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}\\ &\leq& C_k\big(T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\big)(1+T(0)^{-6})\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}\leq \frac{\lambda_0 }{5} T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}, \end{align}\] where we use ?? and 107 in the last two steps.

For \(R_1\), by interpolation inequality, we have \[\begin{align} \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+\frac{1}{2}}}\leq \|g_2\|^{\frac{8}{5}}_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}\|g_2\|^{\frac{2}{5}}_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}\leq\epsilon \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}+C\epsilon^{-4} \|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k},\quad \forall \epsilon>0. \end{align}\] Due to 105 and 106 , the coefficient \[\begin{align} &&T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-3}T'(t)\lesssim(1+T(0)^{-2})T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}\\ &\lesssim&(1+T(0)^{-2})T(t)^{-1}T'(t) \lesssim(1+T(0)^{-2})(\kappa_4\lambda_2)^{-1}T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2\lesssim(1+T(0)^{-8})T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2, \end{align}\] where we use the fact \(\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\lesssim_k 1+T(0)^{-6}\). Thus we let \(\epsilon=\min\{T(0)^8,1\}\epsilon_1/C_k,\epsilon_1>0\) to get that \[\begin{align} R_1&\leq& \epsilon_1T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}+C_k\epsilon_1^{-4}(1+T(0)^{-24})T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{D}}_k}\\ &\leq&\epsilon_1T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}+C_k\epsilon_1^{-4}(1+T(0)^{-30})T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}\\ &\leq& \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\kappa_4\lambda_2\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_{k+1}}+\frac{\lambda_0}{5} T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}, \end{align}\] where we choose \(\varepsilon_1=\frac{1}{2}\) and use ?? and 107 in the last two step.

Similarly, for \(R_3\), we have the interpolation inequality \[\begin{align} \|g_1\|^2_{X_{k-\frac{1}{4}}}\leq \|g_1\|^{\frac{5}{3}}_{X_k}\|g_1\|^{\frac{1}{3}}_{X_{k-\frac{3}{2}}}\leq \epsilon \|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+C\epsilon^{-5}\|g_1\|_{Y_k}. \end{align}\] Due to 106 , the coefficient \[\begin{align} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|R(t)|+T(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-1}+T(t)^{-\frac{1}{4}}|V(t)|^{-\frac{3}{2}}\lesssim T(t)^{-1}T'(t). \end{align}\] Then choose suitably small \(\epsilon>0\) and using ?? , 107 again, we have \[\begin{align} R_3&\leq& \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+C_kT(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{Y_k}\\ &\lesssim& \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}\\ &\leq& \frac{1}{2} T(t)^{-1}T'(t)\|g_1\|^2_{X_k} +\frac{\lambda_0}{5}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}. \end{align}\]

For \(R_2\) and \(R_5\), noticing that \[\begin{align} &&C_kT(t)^{-\frac{11}{2}}\|g_2\|^4_{{\mathcal{E}}_0}\leq C_k(1+T(0)^{-16})\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k},\\ &&and\quad T(t)^{-1} |V(t)|^{-1}\|g_1\|_{L^2_{x,v}}\leq \frac{\lambda_0}{5}T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}+ (1+T(0)^{-6})T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}. \end{align}\] We can rewrite evolution of \((g_1,g_2)\) by combining the estimates of \(R_i,i=1\cdots,5\) as follows: \[\begin{align} \label{simpleenergyinequ} \notag&&\frac{1}{2}\frac{d}{dt}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}+T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\Big(\frac{\lambda_0}{5}-C_k\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}-C_k(1+T(0)^{-16})\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\Big)\\ &&\times\|(g_1,g_2)\|^2_{\mathbf{D}_k}\leq C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}. \end{align}\tag{109}\] Since \(\kappa_4^{-1}\lambda_2^{-1}\lesssim_k 1+T(0)^{-6}\) and recall that \(g_1(t_0)=g(t_0)\), \(g_2(t_0)=0\), if we make the a priori assumption that \[\begin{align} \label{aprioriassumption} C_k\sup_{t>t_0}\|(g_1,g_2)(t)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_k}\lesssim\frac{\min\{\lambda_0,\lambda_0^2\}}{400}\min\{1,T(0)^{16}\}, \end{align}\tag{110}\] it leads that \[\begin{align} &&\|(g_1,g_2)(t)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{k}}^2\leq \|(g_1,g_2)(t_0)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{k}}^2+C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})\int_{t_0}^tT(t)^{-1}|V(t)|^{-2}d\tau\\ &\leq&\|g(t_0)\|_{X_{k}}^2+\frac{C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})}{|E|}\int_{t_0}^\infty (1+\tau)^{-2}d\tau\leq \varepsilon_1^2+C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})|E|^{-1},\quad t>t_0, \end{align}\] where we use 104 and 108 . Consequently, since \[\begin{align} \|g(t)\|^2_{X_k}&=&\|g_1+\mu g_2\|^2_{X_k}\leq C_k(\|g_1\|^2_{X_k}+\|g_2\|^2_{{\mathcal{E}}_k})\leq C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})\|(g_1,g_2)(t)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_{k}}\\ &\leq& C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})\varepsilon_1^2+C_k(1+T(0)^{-6})(1+T(0)^{-6})|E|^{-1}, \end{align}\] then the a priori assumption 110 can be maintained, provided that \[\begin{align} \label{varepsilon1} \varepsilon_1\leq C_{k,\lambda_0}\min\{1,T(0)^{11}\}\eta,\quad |E|^{-1}\leq C_{k,\lambda_0}\min\{1,T(0)^{28}\}\eta \end{align}\tag{111}\] with small \(\eta>0\). Meanwhile, \(\|g(t)\|^2_{X_k}\lesssim\eta\) remains small and thus the argument for long-time behavior of \(T(t)\) and \(V(t)\) is closed, thanks to Lemma 11.

Finally, we give the decay estimates of the solution. We remark that the constants \(C_i\) below depend on \(k\), \(T(0)\) and \(V(0)\), however, since we are concerned with the regime \(t\gg 1\), we shall not indicate this dependence explicitly.

Choosing \(k=17\) and \(k=k_1>17\) separately, we obtain on the one hand that \(\sup_{t\in[t_0,\infty]}\|(g_1,g_2)(t)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{k_1}}\le C_{k_1}\) and that 110 holds for \(k=17\). On the other hand, by ?? and 108 , we have \[\begin{align} T(t)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\geq C_1\big(\ln (3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}},\quad T(t)^{-\frac{1}{2}}|V(t)|^{-2}\leq C_2\langle Et\rangle^{-2},\quad t> t_0. \end{align}\] Then we obtain from 109 that \[\begin{align} \frac{d}{dt}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}^2+C(\ln (3+|E|t))^{-\frac{3}{2}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{D}_{17}}^2\leq C_2\langle Et\rangle^{-2},\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\] The interpolation inequality \[\begin{align} \|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\leq \|(g_1,g_2)\|^\theta_{\mathbf{D}_{17}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^{1-\theta}_{\mathbf{E}_{k_1}},\quad with\quad \theta=\frac{k_1-17}{k_1-31/2}<1 \end{align}\] implies that \[\begin{align} \|(g_1,g_2)\|_{\mathbf{D}_{17}}\geq \|(g_1,g_2)\|^{1-\frac{1}{\theta}}_{\mathbf{E}_{k_1}}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^{\frac{1}{\theta}}_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\geq C_{k_1}\|(g_1,g_2)\|^{\frac{1}{\theta}}_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}. \end{align}\] Thus we have \[\begin{align} Z'(t)+C_1(\ln (3+|E|t))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t)^{1+\theta_1}\leq C_{2}\langle Et\rangle^{-2},\quad with\quad \theta_1=\frac{1}{\theta}-1=\frac{3}{2(k_1-17)}, \end{align}\] where \(Z(t):=\|(g_1,g_2)(t)\|^2_{\mathbf{E}_{17}}\).

If the initial data satisfies \(C_1(\ln (3+|E|t_0))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t_0)^{1+\theta_1}\leq 2C_2\langle Et_0\rangle^{-2}\), at this point, if for any \(t\geq t_0\), \(C_1(\ln (3+|E|t))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t)^{1+\theta_1}\leq 2C_2\langle Et\rangle^{-2}\), we have \(Z(t)\leq (2C_2/C_1)^{\frac{1}{1+\theta_1}} ((\ln (3+|E|t))^{\frac{3}{2}}\langle Et\rangle^{-2})^{\frac{1}{1+\theta_1}}\). Otherwise, by continuity, there is a time interval \(t\in[t_1,t_2)\) such that \[\begin{align} \label{Z1} Z'(t)+\frac{C_1}{2}(\ln (3+|E|t))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t)^{1+\theta_1}\leq 0,\quad t\in[t_1,t_2) \end{align}\tag{112}\] and \(C_1(\ln (3+|E|t_1))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t_1)^{1+\theta_1}= 2C_2\langle Et_1\rangle^{-2}\) which yields that \[\begin{align} Z(t)&\leq& \Big(Z^{-\theta_1}(t_1)+\frac{C_1\theta_1}{2}\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t-t_1)\Big)^{-\frac{1}{\theta_1}}\\ &\leq&\Big(\big(\frac{C_1}{2C_2}\big)^{\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\big(\ln(3+|E|t_1)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\langle Et_1\rangle^{\frac{2\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}+\frac{C_1\theta_1}{2}\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t-t_1)\Big)^{-\frac{1}{\theta_1}}. \end{align}\] Observing that \[\begin{align} \big(\frac{C_1}{2C_2}\big)^{\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\big(\ln(3+|E|t_1)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\langle Et_1\rangle^{\frac{2\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\geq \frac{C_1\theta_1}{2} \big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t_1,~~t\geq t_1 \end{align}\] for large \(|E|\) depending on \(k_1\), \(T(0)\) and \(V(0)\), but independent of \(t_1\). Indeed, \[\begin{align} \big(\ln(3+|E|t_1)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\langle Et_1\rangle^{\frac{2\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\gtrsim\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\frac{2|E|}{1+\theta_1}\theta_1t_1,~~t\geq t_1, \end{align}\] where we use \((1+x)^a\geq ax\) for any \(a,x>0\). Thus we can choose \(|E|\gtrsim C_1(1+\theta_1)\big(\frac{2C_2}{C_1}\big)^{\frac{\theta_1}{1+\theta_1}}\) to get that \[\begin{align} Z(t)\leq C_3\Big(\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t\Big)^{-\frac{1}{\theta_1}},\quad t\in[t_1,t_2). \end{align}\] Therefore, we conclude that \[\begin{align} \label{Z2} Z(t)\leq C_4\max\Big\{(\ln (3+|E|t))^{\frac{3}{2}}\langle Et\rangle^{-2})^{1-\frac{3}{2k_1-31}},\Big(\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t\Big)^{-\frac{2(k_1-17)}{3}}\Big\},\quad t>t_0. \end{align}\tag{113}\] Note that the constant \(C_4\) does not depend on \(t_0\).

If the initial data satisfies \(C_1(\ln (3+|E|t_0))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t_0)^{1+\theta_1}> 2C_2\langle Et_0\rangle^{-2}\) and it holds for any \(t\geq t_0\), then by 112 , we deduce that \[\begin{align} Z(t)\leq\Big(Z^{-\theta_1}(t_0)+\frac{C_1\theta_1}{2}\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}(t-t_0)\Big)^{-\frac{1}{\theta_1}}\leq C_4 \Big(\big(\ln(3+|E|t)\big)^{-\frac{3}{2}}t\Big)^{-\frac{1}{\theta_1}},~~t\geq t_0. \end{align}\] Otherwise, there exists a smallest time \(t_3\) such that \(C_1(\ln (3+|E|t_3))^{-\frac{3}{2}} Z(t_3)^{1+\theta_1}\leq 2C_2\langle Et_3\rangle^{-2}\). Taking \(t_3\) as the initial time as \(t_0\) and by the previous argument, we can still obtain 113 .

Consequently, combining 111 (note that to obtain \(\|g(t_0)\|_{X_k}<\varepsilon_1\), we require \(\|g(0)\|_{X_k}\le \varepsilon_1^2\) according to Corollary 1), 113 and ?? , we complete the proof of Theorem 2. Theorem 1 follows immediately by the change of variables 12 .

Acknowledgement↩︎

The research of L.-B. He was supported by NSF of China under Grant No.11771236 and New Cornerstone Investigator Program 100001127. Jie Ji was supported by Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent and Basic Research Program of Jiangsu under Grant No.BK20251376.

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