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Multiscaling in Infinite Dimensional Collision Processes

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study relaxation properties of two-body collisions in infinite spatial dimension. We show that this process exhibits multiscaling asymptotic behavior as the underlying distribution is characterized by an infinite set of nontrivial exponents. These nonequilibrium relaxation characteristics are found to be closely related to the steady state properties of the system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9909176,
  title  = {Multiscaling in Infinite Dimensional Collision Processes},
  author = {E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9909176},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, revtex