A variational principle for the Kramers equation with unbounded external forces

DOI10.1006/jmaa.2000.7109zbMath0971.82031OpenAlexW2064617947MaRDI QIDQ1588434

Chaocheng Huang

Publication date: 2 November 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4e2c662f410f750b27731ea50a5fa298a0c11e2c

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleKramers equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Ultraparabolic equations, pseudoparabolic equations, etc. (35K70)

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