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Stability and further properties of Rayleigh-Jeans equilibria in the Phonon Boltzmann equation October 10, 2025 (11:00 AM PDT - 12:00 PM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speaker(s) Angeliki Menegaki (Imperial College, London)
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Stability and further properties of Rayleigh-Jeans equilibria in the Phonon Boltzmann equation

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In this talk we consider the four-waves spatially homogeneous kinetic equation arising in weak wave turbulence theory from one-dimensional microscopic oscillator chains. This equation is sometimes referred to as the Phonon Boltzmann Equation. I will discuss the entropy maximisation problem, the collisional invariants, and properties of solutions of the kinetic equation near the Rayleigh-Jeans (RJ) thermodynamic equilibria, in the case where the microscopic model is the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chain. This is based on joint works with Pierre Germain (Imperial College London), Joonhyun La (KIAS) and with Miguel Escobedo (Bilbao).

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Stability and further properties of Rayleigh-Jeans equilibria in the Phonon Boltzmann equation