Akhmetov, Denis R.Lavrentiev, Mikhail M.Spigler, Renato2020-07-152020-07-152002-02-27Akhmetov, D. R., Lavrentiev, M. M., & Spigler, R. (2002). Existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to certain nonlinear integro-differential Fokker-Planck type equations. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2002</i>(24), pp. 1-17.1072-6691https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12088A nonlinear Fokker-Planck type ultraparabolic integro-differential equation is studied. It arises from the statistical description of the dynamical behavior of populations of infinitely many (nonlinearly coupled) random oscillators subject to ``mean-field'' interaction. A regularized parabolic equation with bounded coefficients is first considered, where a small spatial diffusion is incorporated in the model equation and the unbounded coefficients of the original equation are replaced by a special ``bounding" function. Estimates, uniform in the regularization parameters, allow passing to the limit, which identifies a classical solution to the original problem. Existence and uniqueness of classical solutions are then established in a special class of functions decaying in the velocity variable.Text17 pages1 file (.pdf)enAttribution 4.0 InternationalNonlinear integro-differential parabolic equationsUltraparabolic equationsFokker-Planck equationDegenerate parabolic equationsRegularizationArticle