TY - JOUR T1 - The Cauchy Problem for the Elastic Boltzmann Equation with an External Force AU - Cisneros Lorduy, Julio JO - Journal of Modern Mathematics and Statistics VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 10 EP - 14 PY - 2020 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1994-5388 DO - jmmstat.2020.10.14 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jmmstat.2020.10.14 KW - Boltzmann equation KW -kinetic theory KW -fixed point KW -enough KW -sup norm KW -Cauchy problem AB - The Cauchy problem for the elastic Boltzmann equation with external force is considered for near vacuum data. We prove the existence of solutions for initial data small enough with respect to the sup norm by using the fixed point theorem of Krasnoselskii. ER -