# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2014, 7(4): 661-711. doi: 10.3934/krm.2014.7.661

## A review of the mean field limits for Vlasov equations

 1 CSCAMM and Dpt of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States

Received  August 2014 Revised  September 2014 Published  November 2014

We review some classical and more recent results on the mean field limit and propagation of chaos for systems of many particles, leading to Vlasov or macroscopic equations.
Citation: Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin. A review of the mean field limits for Vlasov equations. Kinetic & Related Models, 2014, 7 (4) : 661-711. doi: 10.3934/krm.2014.7.661
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