# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2011, 4(1): 333-344. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.333

## On the Kac model for the Landau equation

 1 Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris-Sud 11, bât. 425, 91405 Orsay, France 2 Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Università La Sapienza - Roma, P.le A. Moro, 5 00185 Roma, Italy, Italy

Received  October 2010 Revised  October 2010 Published  January 2011

We introduce a $N$-particle system which approximates, in the mean-field limit, the solutions of the Landau equation with Coulomb singularity. This model plays the same role as the Kac's model for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation. We use compactness arguments following [11].
Citation: Evelyne Miot, Mario Pulvirenti, Chiara Saffirio. On the Kac model for the Landau equation. Kinetic & Related Models, 2011, 4 (1) : 333-344. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.333
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