A LOGARITHMIC FOURTH-ORDER PARABOLIC EQUATION AND RELATED LOGARITHMIC SOBOLEV INEQUALITIES

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-290

  Dolbeault, Jean ^a   Gentil, Ivan ^a   Jäungel, Ansgar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cauchy problem; Entropy entropy production method; Existence of global in time solutions; Fisher information; Higher order parabolic equations; Logarithmic sobolev inequality; Long time behavior; Poincar inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748533414     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2006.v4.n2.a1     Document Type: Article

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