Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2013 / iii / Paper 6 / 3 / a / Solution

Use the weighted Hilbert structure of velocity-reset relaxation, with inner product $⟨f,g⟩=\int f\overline{g}/M$ and norm $\Vert f{\Vert }_H$. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus $\rho (f)$ is an absolutely convergent integral and a bounded linear functional. Since $\Vert M{\Vert }_H^2=\int M=1$, the normalized velocity-reset collision operator obeysThis establishes boundedness. The subsequent orthogonal decomposition improves the operator norm to exactly one.