Asymptotic behaviors of the semigroup of the linearized Landau operator
for the very soft and Coulomb potentials
Abstract
We study the asymptotic behaviors of the semigroup generated by the
linearized Landau operator in the case of the very soft potentials and
Coulomb potential. Compared with the hard potentials, Maxwellian
molecules and moderately soft potentials, there is no spectral gap for
the linearized Landau operator with the very soft and Coulomb
potentials. By introducing a new decomposition of the linear Landau
collision operator $L$ including an accretive operator and a
relatively compact operator, we establish the complete spectrum
structure for the linearized Landau operator with the very soft and
Coulomb potentials and furthermore derive the time decay estimates of
the corresponding semigroup in a weighted velocity space.