Rigorous derivation of the Landau equation in the weak coupling limit

We examine a family of microscopic models of plasmas, with a parameter [\alpha] comparing the typical distance between collisions to the strength of the grazing collisions. These microscopic models converge in distribution, in the weak coupling limit, to a velocity diffusion described by the linear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, Kay
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70938