Discrete coagulation-fragmentation equations with multiplicative coagulation kernel and constant fragmentation kernel
摘要
Here, we study a discrete coagulation-fragmentation equation with a multiplicative coagulation kernel and a constant fragmentation kernel, which is critical. We apply the discrete Bernstein transform to the original coagulation-fragmentation equation to get two new singular Hamilton-Jacobi equations and use viscosity solution methods to analyze them. We obtain well-posedness, regularity, and long-time behaviors of the viscosity solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equations in certain ranges, which imply the well-posedness and long-time behaviors of mass-conserving solutions to the coagulation-fragmentation equation. The results obtained provide some definitive answers to a conjecture posed in (Escobedo et al. in Commun. Math. Phys. 231(1): 157–188,