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In this work, we present an approach for the Landau equation based on the relationship between entropy and entropy dissipation. Thanks to the same estimate, we recover on one hand an explicit bound on the long time behavior of the spatially homogeneous equation, and on the other hand the strong L 1 compactness of the solutions of the spatially inhomogeneous equation.
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Desvillettes, L. (2004). Plasma kinetic models: the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. In: Degond, P., Pareschi, L., Russo, G. (eds) Modeling and Computational Methods for Kinetic Equations. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8200-2_6
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