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Abstract This paper is concerned with a modified entropy method to establish the large-time convergence towards the (unique) steady state, for kinetic Fokker–Planck equations with non-quadratic confinement potentials in whole space. We extend previous approaches by analyzing Lyapunov functionals with non-constant weight matrices in the dissipation functional (a generalized Fisher information). We establish exponential convergence in a weighted H¹ H 1 -norm with rates that become sharp in the case of quadratic potentials. In the defective case for quadratic potentials, i. e. when the drift matrix has non-trivial Jordan blocks, the weighted L² L 2 -distance between a Fokker–Planck-solution and the steady state has always a sharp decay estimate of the order O ( (1+t) e^-t /2) O ( (1 + t) e - t ν / 2), with ν the friction parameter. The presented method also gives new hypoelliptic regularization results for kinetic Fokker–Planck equations (from a weighted L² L 2 -space to a weighted H¹ H 1 -space).
Arnold et al. (Sat,) studied this question.