E. A. CARLEN and M. C. CARVALHO
Probabilistic methods in kinetic theory
Pages: 101-149
Received: 1 October 2003
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 82C40
Work partially supported by U.S. N.S.F. grant DMS 00-70589, by PRAXIS XXI
and by TMR ERB-FMRX CT97 0157
Abstract: We present a review of probabilistic method in kinetic theory focusing on problems concerning the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. The material was presented by the first author at the Porto Ercole Summer School in June 2002.