Celebrating Cercignani's conjecture for the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.3934/krm.2011.4.277zbMath1217.82064arXiv1009.4006MaRDI QIDQ631361

Laurent Desvillettes, Cédric Villani, Clément Mouhot

Publication date: 23 March 2011

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4006

zbMATH Keywords

relative entropy; relaxation to equilibrium; logarithmic Sobolev inequality; Boltzmann equation; Poincaré inequality; spectral gap; entropy production; Landau equation; Cercignani's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

82C40: Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics

26D10: Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators

35A23: Inequalities applied to PDEs involving derivatives, differential and integral operators, or integrals

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