Kac's program in kinetic theory

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-147

  Mischler, Stéphane ^a   Mouhot, Clément ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Collision process; Hard spheres; Jump process; Kac's program; Kinetic theory; Master equation; Maxwell molecules; Mean field limit; Non cutoff; Quantitative; Uniform in time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879420862     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-012-0422-3     Document Type: Article

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