RELATIVE ENTROPY IN HYPERBOLIC RELAXATION*

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-132

  Tzavaras, Athanasios E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

relative entropy; relaxation limits

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049156332     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2005.v3.n2.a2     Document Type: Article

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