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Asynchronous finite differences in most probable distribution with finite numbers of particles

Statistical Mechanics 2022-05-06 v2 Probability

Abstract

For a discrete function f(x)f\left( x\right) on a discrete set, the finite difference can be either forward and backward. If f(x)f\left( x\right) is a sum of two such functions f(x)=f1(x)+f2(x)f\left( x\right) =f_{1}\left( x\right) +f_{2}\left( x\right) , the first order difference of Δf(x)\Delta f\left( x\right) can be grouped into four possible combinations, in which two are the usual synchronous ones Δff1(x)+Δff2(x)\Delta ^{f}f_{1}\left( x\right) +\Delta ^{f}f_{2}\left( x\right) and Δbf1(x)+Δbf2(x)\Delta ^{b}f_{1}\left( x\right) +\Delta ^{b}f_{2}\left( x\right) , and other two are asynchronous ones Δff1(x)+Δbf2(x)\Delta ^{f}f_{1}\left( x\right) +\Delta ^{b}f_{2}\left( x\right) and Δbf1(x)+Δff2(x)\Delta ^{b}f_{1}\left( x\right) +\Delta ^{f}f_{2}\left( x\right) , where Δf\Delta ^{f} and Δb\Delta ^{b} denotes the forward and backward difference respectively. Thus, the first order variation equation Δf(x)=0\Delta f\left( x\right) =0 for this function f(x)f\left( x\right) gives at most four different solutions which contain both true and false one. \emph{A formalism of the discrete calculus of variations is developed to single out the true one by means of comparison of the second order variations, in which the largest value in magnitude indicates the true solution, yielding the exact form of the distributions for Boltzmann, Bose and Fermi system without requiring the numbers of particle to be infinitely large}. When there is only one particle in the system, all distributions reduce to be the Boltzmann one.

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@article{arxiv.2110.04155,
  title  = {Asynchronous finite differences in most probable distribution with finite numbers of particles},
  author = {Q. H. Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04155},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, some overlap with 2104.11075. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.11075