Explicit coercivity estimates for the linearized Boltzmann and Landau operators

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1321-1348

  Mouhot, Clément ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Coercivity estimates; Hard potentials; Linearized Boltzmann operator; Linearized Landau operator; Quantitative; Soft potentials; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748450509     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300600635004     Document Type: Article

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