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Bakry-Emery meet Villani

Analysis of PDEs 2017-06-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We revisit Villani's approach to the study of hypocoercive diffusion operators by applying a variant of the Bakry-\'Emery machinery. The method relies on a generalized Bakry-\'Emery type criterion that applies to Kolmogorov type operators. Our approach includes as a special case the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation and allows, in that case, to recover hypocoercive estimates first obtained by Villani.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.4938,
  title  = {Bakry-Emery meet Villani},
  author = {Fabrice Baudoin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4938},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in Journal of Functional Analysis. Section 3 has been removed. Section 2.6 is taken from arXiv:1602.04177. The preprint arXiv:1602.04177 will be not be published, but only used as lecture notes

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