A new approach to quantitative propagation of chaos for drift, diffusion and jump processes

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 1-59

  Mischler, Stéphane ^a   Mouhot, Clément ^b   Wennberg, Bernt ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Drift diffusion; Fluctuations; Granular gas; Inelastic collision; McKean Vlasov equation; Mean field limit; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889028233     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: 14322064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-013-0542-8     Document Type: Article

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