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# Stability of global equilibrium for the multi-species Boltzmann equation in $L^\infty$ settings

• We prove the stability of global equilibrium in a multi-species mixture, where the different species can have different masses, on the $3$-dimensional torus. We establish stability estimates in $L^\infty_{x,v}(w)$ where $w=w(v)$ is either polynomial or exponential, with explicit threshold. Along the way we extend recent estimates and stability results for the mono-species Boltzmann operator not only to the multi-species case but also to more general hard potential and Maxwellian kernels.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B40, 35Q20; Secondary: 76P05, 82C40.

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