Complete Characterization of Convergence to Equilibrium for an Inelastic Kac Model |
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Authors: | Ester Gabetta Eugenio Regazzini |
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Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit?? degli Studi di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy 2. CNR-IMATI, Milano, Italy
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Abstract: | Pulvirenti and Toscani introduced an equation which extends the Kac caricature of a Maxwellian gas to inelastic particles. We show that the probability distribution, solution of the relative Cauchy problem, converges weakly to a probability distribution if and only if the symmetrized initial distribution belongs to the standard domain of attraction of a symmetric stable law, whose index ?? is determined by the so-called degree of inelasticity, p>0, of the particles: $\alpha=\frac{2}{1+p}$ . This result is then used: (1) To state that the class of all stationary solutions coincides with that of all symmetric stable laws with index ??. (2) To determine the solution of a well-known stochastic functional equation in the absence of extra-conditions usually adopted. |
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