The grazing collision limit of the inelastic Kac model around a lévy-type equilibrium

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 827-850

  Furioli, G ^a   Pulvirenti, A ^b   Terraneo, E ^c   Toscani, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dissipative kinetic models; Fractional diffusion equations; L vy type distributions

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN OF ATTRACTION; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION; HEAVY-TAILED; INFINITE VARIANCES; KINETIC MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84861355822     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110836572     Document Type: Article

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