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On the gradient flow structure of the isotropic Landau equation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-10-21 v2

Abstract

We prove that the isotropic Landau equation equipped with the Coulomb potential introduced by Krieger-Strain and Gualdani-Guillen can be identified with the gradient flow of the entropy in the probability space with respect to a Riemannian metric tensor with nonlocal mobility. We give characterizations of the corresponding geodesics equations and present a convergence rate result by estimating its Hessian operator.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02343,
  title  = {On the gradient flow structure of the isotropic Landau equation},
  author = {Jing An and Lexing Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02343},
  year   = {2020}
}