Trend to Equilibrium for the Coagulation–Fragmentation Equation

For a linear coagulation kernel and a constant fragmentation kernel we prove the existence of equilibrium solutions and examine asymptotic properties for time-dependent solutions which are proved to converge to the equilibria. The rate of the convergence is estimated. It is shown also that all time-dependent solutions with the same density can tend to only one particular steady-state solution. In this sense the equilibrium solution is proved to be unique. Existence, uniqueness and mass conservation of time-dependent solutions has been proved in a previous paper by the authors [10].

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