Boltzmann entropy dissipation
ID: boltzmann-entropy-dissipation
Put and . The weak Boltzmann collision identity applied to gives when transport boundary fluxes vanish. Monotonicity of the logarithm makes every integrand nonnegative. For positive sufficiently regular distributions and nondegenerate angular scattering, zero dissipation forces to be a collision invariant, hence to be a local Maxwellian. This equality statement alone does not establish convergence rates.
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