Isotropic Hypoellipticity and Trend to Equilibrium for the Fokker-Planck Equation with a High-Degree Potential

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-218

  Hérau, Frédéric ^a   Nier, Francis ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims University of Reims Champagne Ardenne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

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EID: 1142264370     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-003-0276-3     Document Type: Article

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