Quantitative Linearized Study of the Boltzmann Collision Operator and Applications

We present recent results 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.

Keywords

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

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

76P05, 82B40, 82C40, 82D05

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Published 1 January 2007