A Maxwellian lower bound for solutions to the Boltzmann equation

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-160

  Pulvirenti, Ada ^a   Wennberg, Bernt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0031538651     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02509799     Document Type: Article

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