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Phase space measure concentration for an ideal gas

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We point out that a special case of an ideal gas exhibits concentration of the volume of its phase space, which is a sphere, around its equator in the thermodynamic limit. The rate of approach to the thermodynamic limit is determined. Our argument relies on the spherical isoperimetric inequality of L\'{e}vy and Gromov.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0811.1719,
  title  = {Phase space measure concentration for an ideal gas},
  author = {Anthony J. Creaco and Nikos Kalogeropoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1719},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, No figures, Accepted by Modern Physics Letters B

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