APPENDIX C : SOME IDENTITIES SATISFIED BY THE COULOMB POTENTIAL In this appendix, we use the notations of chapter 2. We shall give several formulas which hold for Landau's collisional operator Q(f, f) with a Coulomb potential. We assume that f is smooth and rapidly decreasing, so as to allow all formal manipulations. In this case, the matrix aij is given by (1) aij(v) = ( ?ij ? vivj |v|2 ) 1 |v| . Therefore, c = ∑ ij ∂ijaij = ?8pi?, where ? is the Dirac mass at the origin, and hence c = c ? f = ?8pif . Thus, the Landau operator can be rewritten as (2) Q(f, f) = aij∂ijf + 8pif 2. As pointed out to us to by Desjardins, the matrix aij can be com- puted “eplicitly” by the use of the so-called Riesz transform. Let us define f?(?) = ∫ R3 e?iv·?f(v) dv, Rij = ?∂ij(?∆)?1, so that in Fourier space, Rij is given by R?ij(?) = ?i?j |?|2 , and Rij satisfies the identities ∑ i Rii = I, ∂ij = Rij∆ = ∆Rij, ∑ ij Rij∂ij = ∆.
- ?2 ∫
- another formal
- dirac function
- fourier transform
- r6 aij
- lan- dau operator
- r3 cf
- ij ∂ijaij
- physically rel- evant