Existence and Uniqueness of Mass Conserving Solutions to Safronov-Dubovski Coagulation Equation for Product Kernel

Abstract

The article presents the existence and mass conservation of solution for the discrete Safronov-Dubovski coagulation equation for the product coalescence coefficients φ such that φ i,j ≤ ij ∀ i, j ∈ N. Both conservative and non-conservative truncated systems are used to analyse the infinite system of ODEs. In the conservative case, Helly's selection theorem is used to prove the global existence while for the non-conservative part, we make use of the refined version of De la Vallée-Poussin theorem to establish the existence. Further, it is shown that these solutions conserve density. Finally, the solutions are shown to be unique when the kernel φ i,j ≤ min{i η , j η } where η ∈ [0, 2].