Explicit spectral gap estimates for the linearized Boltzmann and Landau operators with hard potentials

Revista Matematica Iberoamericana

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 819-841

  Baranger, Céline ^a   Mouhot, Clément ^b  

^a Inserm   (France)

^b UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Explicit; Geometrical properties; Grazing collision limit; Hard potentials; Landau linearized operator; Linearized Boltzmann operator; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645085182     PISSN: 02132230     EISSN: 22350616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/436     Document Type: Article

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