Renjun Duan, Zongguang Li, Shuangqian Liu
We are concerned with the Cauchy problem on the Boltzmann equation in the whole space. The goal is to construct global-in-time bounded mild solutions near Maxwellians with the perturbation admitting a polynomial tail in large velocities. The full range of both hard and soft potentials with cutoff can be covered. The proof is based on a decomposition of the Boltzmann equation motivated by Caflisch that can capture the time-decay property of solutions in the way that the slow velocity-decay part decays in time much faster than the fast velocity-decay part. This provides the first result on the construction of slow-decaying solutions when the spatial domain is unbounded.