On linear hypersingular Boltzmann transport equation and its variational formulation

Abstract: For charged particle transport the linear Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) turns out to be a partial hyper-singular integro-differential operator. This is due to the fact that the related differential cross-sections $\sigma(x,\omega',\omega,E',E)$ may have hyper-singularities. In these cases the energy integral appearing in the collision terms must be interpreted as the Hadamard finite part integral leading to hyper-singular integral operators. The article considers a refined expression for the exact transport operator and related variational formulations of the inflow initial boundary value problem for one particle equation containing hyper-singularities. We find that the exact BTE contains the first-order partial derivatives with respect to energy combined by partial Hadamard (first-order) singular integral operators. In addition, it contains the second-order partial derivatives with respect to angle and some mixed terms. The analysis will be carried out only for the so called M{\o}ller-type interaction (scattering) which is a kind of prototype of hyper-singular interactions. The generalizations to other type of collisions, such as to Bremsstrahlung, go analogously. We also expose a weak form (the variational formulation) of the hyper-singular transport problem. Another variant variational formulation decreases the level of singularities in the integration (appearing in the due bilinear form) containing only singularities of order one that is, singularities like ${1\over{E'-E}}dE' dE$. The variational formulation is an essential step in order to show the existence of generalized solutions e.g. by Lions-Lax-Milgram Theorem based methods (proceedings for solution spaces and existence theory are omitted here). The corresponding approximative transport operator is deduced. It turns out to be a CSDA-Fokker-Planck type operator.