Quantitative linearized study of the Boltzmann collision operator and applications

Mouhot, Clément

Mouhot, Clément (2007), Quantitative linearized study of the Boltzmann collision operator and applications, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 5, Supplément, p. 73-86

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http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00087296/en/

Date

2007

Journal name

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

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Supplément

Publisher

International Press

Pages

73-86

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Mouhot, Clément

Abstract (EN)

We present recent results [4, 28, 29] about the quantitative study of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator, and its application to the study of the trend to equilibrium for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard spheres.

Subjects / Keywords

Boltzmann equation ; spatially homogeneous ; linearized Boltzmann collision operator ; spectrum ; spectral gap ; explicit ; trend to equilibrium ; rate of convergence