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Large time behavior of the solution to the Landau Equation with specular reflective boundary condition

• In this paper a half space problem for the one-dimensional Landau equation with specular reflective boundary condition is investigated. We show that the solution to the Landau equation converges to a global Maxwellian. Moreover, a time-decay rate is also obtained.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A01, 82C40; Secondary: 35A09.

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