For perturbation solutions to kinetic equations near Maxwellians, we introduce a weighted energy functional whose dissipation rate is quartic, that can be used for treating the large-velocity growth in the nonlinear estimates due to degeneration of the linearized collision operators for soft potentials. As an immediate application, I will talk about the stability of contact waves for the Landau equation in the Coulomb case.
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