Exponential Entropy dissipation for weakly self-consistent Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations

Abstract

We study long-time dynamical behaviors of weakly self-consistent Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations. We introduce Hessian matrix conditions on mean-field kernel functions, which characterizes the exponential convergence of solutions in $L^1$ distances. The matrix condition is derived from the dissipation of a selected Lyapunov functional, namely auxiliary Fisher information functional. We verify proposed matrix conditions in examples.

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