Trend to the equilibrium for the Fokker-Planck system with a strong external magnetic field

Abstract: We consider the Fokker-Planck equation with a strong external magnetic field. Global-in-time solutions are built near the Maxwellian, the global equilibrium state for the system. Moreover, we prove the convergence to equilibrium at exponential rate. The results are first obtained on spaces with an exponential weight. Then they are extended to larger functional spaces, like the Lebesgue space and the Sobolev space with polynomial weight, by the method of factorization and enlargement of the functional space developed in [Gualdani, Mischler, Mouhot, 2017].