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A note on hypocoercivity for kinetic equations with heavy-tailed equilibrium

Analysis of PDEs 2020-03-17 v2

Abstract

In this paper we are interested in the large time behavior of linear kinetic equations with heavy-tailed local equilibria. Our main contribution concerns the kinetic L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation, for which we adapt hypocoercivity techniques in order to show that solutions converge exponentially fast to the global equilibrium. Compared to the classical kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, the issues here concern the lack of symmetry of the non-local L\'evy-Fokker-Planck operator and the understanding of its regularization properties. As a complementary related result, we also treat the case of the heavy-tailed BGK equation.

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@article{arxiv.1911.11535,
  title  = {A note on hypocoercivity for kinetic equations with heavy-tailed equilibrium},
  author = {Nathalie Ayi and Maxime Herda and Hélène Hivert and Isabelle Tristani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11535},
  year   = {2020}
}
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