“…Our interest in establishing local well-posedness with initial data that is merely polynomially decaying is due to its relationship to the recent conditional regularity program initiated by Silvestre [36] and continued in collaboration with Imbert and Mouhot [28][29][30][31][32][33]. The goal of the program is to understand the regularity theory for the Boltzmann equation conditional to the mass, energy, and entropy densities M (t, x) = f (t, x, v)dv, E(t, x) = f (t, x, v)|v| 2 dv and H(t, x) = f (t, x, v) log f (t, x, v)dv, satisfying, uniformly in (t, x),…”