Solving Landau equation for some soft potentials through a probabilistic approach

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 515-539

  Guérin, Hélène ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Landau equation; Nonlinear martingale problems; Nonlinear stochastic differential equation; White noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844577221     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1050689592     Document Type: Article

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