This paper is devoted to hydrodynamic limits for collisional linear kinetic equations. It is a classical result that under certain conditions on the collision operator, the long time/small mean free path asymptotic behavior of the density of particles can be described by diffusion-type equations. We are interested in situations in which the degeneracy of the collision frequency for small velocities causes this limit to break down. We show that the appropriate asymptotic analysis leads to an anomalous diffusion regime.
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