Almost exponential decay near Maxwellian

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-429

  Strain, Robert M ^a,b   Guo, Yan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann; Collisional kinetic theory; Convergence to Maxwellian; Energy method; Landau; Maxwell; Relativistic Landau Maxwell system; Vlasov Maxwell Boltzmann system

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644808362     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300500361545     Document Type: Article

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