Fisher information for solutions of the Boltzmann equation

This note reviews a recent contribution about the Fisher information for the space-homogeneous Boltzmann equation by L. Silvestre, C. Villani and the author ( arXiv, 2024 ). This classical functional from information theory is shown to be non-increasing along the flow of the non-linear PDE for all physically relevant particle interactions. The proof consists in establishing a new functional inequality on the sphere of Log-Sobolev type. This new a priori estimate on solutions yields global-in-time well posedness of the equation, in particular in the case of very singular interactions, a left open question up to this work.