hypocoercive

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English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ coercive.

Adjective

hypocoercive (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.
    • 2016, Fabrice Baudoin, Camille Tardif, “Hypocoercive estimates on foliations and velocity spherical Brownian motion”, in arXiv:
      By further developing the generalized -calculus for hypoelliptic operators, we prove hypocoercive estimates for a large class of Kolmogorov type operators which are defined on non necessarily totally geodesic Riemannian foliations.