On the trend to global equilibrium in spatially inhomogeneous entropy-dissipating systems: The linear Fokker-Planck equation

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-42

  Desvillettes, Laurent ^a   Villani, Cédric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

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DOI: 10.1002/1097-0312(200101)54:1<1::AID-CPA1>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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