Propagation of chaos for the Landau equation with very soft and Coulomb potentials

Abstract: We consider a drift-diffusion process of $N$ stochastic particles and show that its empirical measure converges, as $N\rightarrow\infty$, to the solution of the Landau equation. We work in the regime of very soft and Coulomb potentials using a tightness/uniqueness method. To claim uniqueness, we need high integrability estimates that we obtain by crucially exploiting the dissipation of the Fisher information at the level of the particle system. To be able to exploit these estimates as $N\rightarrow\infty$, we prove the affinity in infinite dimension of the entropy production and Fisher information dissipation (and general higher-order versions of the Fisher information through an abstract theorem), results which were up to now only known for the entropy and the Fisher information.