Spectral gap and coercivity estimates for linearized Boltzmann collision operators without angular cutoff

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 515-535

  Mouhot, Clément ^a   Strain, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann operator; Landau operator; Long range interaction; Soft potentials; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248226318     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matpur.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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