Upper Maxwellian Bounds for the Spatially Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation

For the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cutoff hard potentials, it is shown that solutions remain bounded from above uniformly in time by a Maxwellian distribution, provided the initial data have a Maxwellian upper bound. The main technique is based on a comparison principle that uses a certain dissipative property of the linear Boltzmann equation. Implications of the technique to propagation of upper Maxwellian bounds in the spatially-inhomogeneous case are discussed.

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