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

Mathematical Physics 2016-02-18 v1 math.MP

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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@article{arxiv.1602.05355,
  title  = {Derivation of the Boltzmann equation: hard spheres, short-range potentials and beyond},
  author = {Chiara Saffirio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05355},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

To appear in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. 20 pages