On the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for hard potentials part II: H-theorem and applications

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 261-298

  Desvillettes, Laurent ^a   Villani, Cédric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

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DOI: 10.1080/03605300008821513     Document Type: Article

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