On the Initial Boundary-Value Problem in the Kinetic Theory of Hard Particles II: Non-uniqueness

2018/05/11 by Mark Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Mark
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.04615

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Abstract

We prove that to each initial datum in a set of positive measure in phase space, there exist uncountably-many associated weak solutions of Newton's equations of motion which govern the dynamics of two non-spherical sets with real-analytic boundaries subject to the conservation of linear momentum, angular momentum and kinetic energy. We prove this result by first exhibiting non-uniqueness of classical solution to a constrained Monge-Ampère equation posed on Euclidean space, and then applying the deep existence theory of Ballard for hard particle dynamics. In the final section of the article, we discuss the relevance of this observation to the kinetic theory of hard particle systems.

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