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The partial support of the Office of Naval Research and of the National Science Foundation, NSF G-19684, is gratefully acknowledged.
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McKean, H.P. Speed of approach to equilibrium for Kac's caricature of a Maxwellian gas. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 21, 343–367 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264463
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