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hypocoercive

hypocoercive adjective: hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.

Adjective

hypocoercive (not comparable)

  1. Hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.
    • By further developing the generalized #92;Gamma-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.2016, Fabrice Baudoin, Camille Tardif, “Hypocoercive estimates on foliations and velocity spherical Brownian motion”, in arXiv

Origin of hypocoercive

From hypo- + coercive.

Questions about hypocoercive

What does hypocoercive mean?
Hypocoercive means hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.
What part of speech is hypocoercive?
Hypocoercive is an adjective.

Words near hypocoercive in the dictionary

  1. hypocoagulant
  2. hypocoagulation
  3. hypocoagulative
  4. hypocoagulopathy
  5. hypocochlear
  6. hypocoercive
  7. hypocoercivity
  8. hypocognition
  9. hypocolius
  10. hypocoliuses
  11. hypocomplementaemia

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