Strong phase-space semiclassical asymptotics

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2116-2149

  Athanassoulis, Agissilaos ^a   Paul, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES LAURENT SCHWARTZ   (France)

Author keywords

(Smoothed) Wigner transform; Regularity of Wigner equation; Semiclassical limit in strong topology

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

HUSIMI TRANSFORMS; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; STATE OF THE ART; STRONG CONVERGENCE; STRONG TOPOLOGY; WIGNER EQUATIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS; WIGNER TRANSFORMS;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

EID: 81255169997     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/10078712X     Document Type: Article

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