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# A remark on Cannone-Karch solutions to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules

• The purpose of this paper is to extend the result concerning the existence and the uniqueness of infinite energy solutions, given by Cannone-Karch, of the Cauchy problem for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian molecules without Grad's angular cutoff assumption in the mild singularity case, to the strong singularity case. This extension follows from a simple observation of the symmetry on the unit sphere for the Bobylev formula which is the Fourier transform of the Boltzmann collision term.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A05, 35B65, 35D10, 76P05, 82C40.

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