Metrics for probability distributions and the trend to equilibrium for solutions of the Boltzmann equation.

DOI10.1007/BF02179298zbMath1081.82616MaRDI QIDQ1593331

Giuseppe Toscani, Bernt Wennberg, Ester Gabetta

Publication date: 16 January 2001

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformweak convergenceBoltzmann equationprobability measuresProkhorov metricbivariate distributions with given marginalsTanaka functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

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