Scattering theory for the linearized Boltzmann equation

Scattering theory for a cloud of mutually non-interacting particles that in its passage through R3 undergoes absorption and production in a region D is contained in R3 through interaction with the medium in D is investigated. The motion for such a model is given by the linearized Boltzmann equation. Let n(x,v,t) denote the particle density in phase space at time t. The dynamics is described by a 1-parameter semigroup, W(t), which is in general not isometric. The existence of the wave operators Ω/sub +/ = s - lim W0(-t)W(t) (t →+infinity) and Ω/sub -/ = s - lim W(-t)W0(t) (t →-infinity), where W0(t) is the free dynamics, is examined at length