Determination of the Spectral Gap in the Kac Model for Physical Momentum and Energy-Conserving Collisions

DOI10.1137/070695423zbMath1163.82007arXiv0705.3729OpenAlexW2160048513MaRDI QIDQ3609049

Michael Loss, Jeffrey S. Geronimo, Eric Anders Carlen

Publication date: 6 March 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3729

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal polynomialsspectral gapKac model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20)

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