Ilya Karlin

Fock-Space Formulation of the Boltzmann Collision Operator for Maxwell Molecules

We develop a representation-independent symmetric-Fock formulation of the nonlinear Boltzmann collision operator for Maxwell molecules. Starting from the standard velocity-space operator, we give a short derivation of Bobylev's Fourier identity and isolate its characteristic structure: two linearly related Fourier argu...