Compactness of the gain parts of the linearized Boltzmann operator with weakly cutoff kernels

Kinetic and Related Models

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 335-351

  David Levermore, C ^a   Sun, Weiran ^a,b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactness; Fredholm property; Linearized Boltzmann operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955370057     PISSN: 19375093     EISSN: 19375077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/krm.2010.3.335     Document Type: Article

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