Derivation of the Boltzmann equation: hard spheres, short-range potentials and beyond

2016/02/17 by Chiara Saffirio, Saffirio, Chiara
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.05355

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Abstract

We review some results concerning the derivation of the Boltzmann equation starting from the many-body classical Hamiltonian dynamics. In particular, the celebrated paper by O. E. Lanford III and the more recent papers [13, 23] are discussed.

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