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This page contains links to copies of some of my most recent papers in pdf format. The page will be supplemented by an archival page eventually, with all of my old papers. This page only contains links to more recent papers.

This research is supported by the division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation. I thank the NSF for providing this essential support.
  • Central Limit Theorem for Maxwellian Molecules and Truncation of the Wild Expansion, with M.C. Carvalho and E. Gabetta. Published in Comm Pure and Appl. Math., Vol. LIII (2000), pp. 370-397.
  • Many-Body Aspects of Approach to Equilibrium with M.C. Carvalho and Michael Loss, in Journes Equations aux derivees partielles, Nantes, 5-9 juin 2000.
  • Algebraic rate of decrease of excess free energy and the stability of fronts for a non-local phase kinetics equation, I with M.C. Carvalho and E. Orlandi. Published in Jour. Stat Phys., Vol. 95 (1999) 1069-1117.
  • Algebraic rate of decrease of excess free energy and the stability of fronts for a non-local phase kinetics equation, II with M.C. Carvalho and E. Orlandi. Published in Comm. PDE, Vol. 25 (2000) pp. 847-886.
  • Cases of equality in Bobkov's inequality and Gaussian rearrangemint with Clayton Kerce. Published in Calculus of Variations, Vol. 13 (2001), pp. 1-18
  • On the optimal choice of coefficients in a truncated Wild sum and approximate solutions for the Kac equation, with F. Salvarani. Published in Jour. Stat. Phys., vol. 109 no. 1/2, (2002) pp. 152-277
  • Determination of the sepctral gap in Kac's master equation and related stochastic evolutions, with M.C. Carvalho and Michael Loss. Published in Acta Mathematica Vol. 191 (2003) pp. 1-54
  • Constrained Steepest Descent in the 2-Wasserstein Metric, with W. Gangbo. Published in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 157, no. 3, (2003) pp. 1-40
  • On the solution of a model Boltzmann equation via constrained steepest descent in the 2--Wasserstein metric, with W. Gangbo. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis,  172 no. 1, (2004) 21--64
  • Fast and slow convergence to equilibrium Maxwellian molecules via Wild sums, with X. Lu. Published in Jour. Stat. Phys., Vol. 112 no. 1/2, (2003) pp. 59-134
  • Free energy minimizers for a two-species model with segregation and liquid-vapour transition with Carvalho, M. C.; Esposito, R.; Lebowitz, J. L. and Marra, R. Published in Nonlinearity Vol. 16 (2003), no. 3, 1075--1105.
  • A sharp analog of Young's inequality on SN, and related entropy inequalities with E. Lieb and M. Loss. Journal of Geometric Analysis,  14 (2004), 487-520
  • On the relation between the rates of realxation and convergence of Wild sums for solutions of the Kac equation, with M.C. Carvalho and E. Gabetta, Jour. Func. Analysis, 220 , no. 2, (2005) 362–387
  • Phase transitions in equilibrium systems: microscopic models and mesoscopic free energies with M. Carvalho, L.Esposito, J. Lebowitz and R. Marrra. Jour. Molecular Phys., 103 No 21--23 (2005) 3141--3151
  • An entropy dissipation-entropy estimate for a thin film type equation with S. Ulusoy. Comm. in Math. Sciences 3, no. 2 (2005) 171-178 
  • Approximate Solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard Equation via Corrections to the Mullins-Sekerka Motion, with Carvalho and Orlandi, Archive for Rational Mech. Analysis, 171 no 1, (2005) 1--55
  • Some matrix rearrangement inequalities, with E. Lieb. Annali di Matematica Pura e Appl.,  185, Supplemnnt 5, (2006)  315--324
  • An inequality of Hadamard type for permanents with E. Lieb and M. Loss. Methods and Applications of Analysis,  13, No. 1 (2006) 1--18
  • Dropplet minimizers for the Cahn-Hilliard free energy functional,  with M. Carvalho, L.Esposito, J. Lebowitz and R. Marrra. Jour . Geom. Analysis,   16, No 2   (2006) 233--263
  • Probabilistic Investigation of the explosion of solutions of the Kac equation with infinite energy initial distribution, with  Gabbetta and  Regazzini,    Submitted to Annals of Probability, currently E.S.I. preprint number 1871
  • On the rate of explosion for infinite energy solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation, with  Gabbetta and  Regazzini,    Submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics, currently E.S.I. preprint number 1877
  • Asymptotic equipartition and long time behavior of solutions of a thin--film equation, with S. Ulusoy, Submitted to Jour. diff. Equations