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June  2011, 4(2): 479-497. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.479

## On Villani's conjecture concerning entropy production for the Kac Master equation

 1 Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States

Received  September 2010 Revised  February 2011 Published  April 2011

In this paper we take an idea presented in recent paper by Carlen, Carvalho, Le Roux, Loss, and Villani ([3]) and push it one step forward to find an exact estimation on the entropy production. The new estimation essentially proves that Villani's conjecture is correct, or more precisely that a much worse bound to the entropy production is impossible in the general case.
Citation: Amit Einav. On Villani's conjecture concerning entropy production for the Kac Master equation. Kinetic & Related Models, 2011, 4 (2) : 479-497. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.479
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##### References:
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