## Bernoulli

• Bernoulli
• Volume 22, Number 2 (2016), 681-710.

### Long time behavior of stochastic hard ball systems

#### Abstract

We study the long time behavior of a system of $n=2,3$ Brownian hard balls, living in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ for $d\ge2$, submitted to a mutual attraction and to elastic collisions.

#### Article information

Source
Bernoulli, Volume 22, Number 2 (2016), 681-710.

Dates
Revised: July 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 9 November 2015

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1447077758

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3150/14-BEJ672

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3449797

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1336.60108

#### Citation

Cattiaux, Patrick; Fradon, Myriam; Kulik, Alexei M.; Roelly, Sylvie. Long time behavior of stochastic hard ball systems. Bernoulli 22 (2016), no. 2, 681--710. doi:10.3150/14-BEJ672. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1447077758

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