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Dynamical virial relations and invalidity of the Boltzmann kinetic equation

Statistical Mechanics 2012-03-20 v1

Abstract

A sequence of exact relations is found which connect one- and many-particle time-dependent distribution functions of low-density gas with their derivatives in respect to mean density. It is shown that, at least in the context of spatially non-uniform gas evolutions, these relations forbid the "molecular chaos propagation" and imply inapplicability of the Boltzmann kinetic equation even under the Boltzmann-Grad limit and regardless of degree of the non-uniformity.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3861,
  title  = {Dynamical virial relations and invalidity of the Boltzmann kinetic equation},
  author = {Yu. E. Kuzovlev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3861},
  year   = {2012}
}

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9 pages, no figures, latex2e revtex4-1