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General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

The long-term dynamics of long-range interacting $N$-body systems can generically be described by the Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation. However, for ${1D}$ homogeneous systems, this collision operator exactly vanishes by symmetry. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-04 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Finite-$N$ effects unavoidably drive the long-term evolution of long-range interacting $N$-body systems. The Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation generically describes this process sourced by ${1/N}$ effects but this kinetic operator exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

We review and complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of spatially homogeneous systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects into account. The evolution of the system as a whole is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In the last five decades, numerical simulations have provided invaluable insights into the evolution of galactic discs over cosmic times. As a complementary approach, developments in kinetic theory now also offer a theoretical framework to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Mathieu Roule , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The unshielded nature of gravity means that stellar systems are inherently inhomogeneous. As a result, stars do not move in straight lines. This obvious fact severely complicates the kinetic theory of stellar systems because position and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Chris Hamilton

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

We derive the kinetic equation that describes the secular evolution of a large set of particles orbiting a dominant massive object, such as stars bound to a supermassive black hole or a proto-planetary debris disc encircling a star. Because…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-23 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , John Magorrian

The secular evolution of an infinitely thin tepid isolated galactic disc made of a finite number of particles is described using the inhomogeneous Balescu-Lenard equation. Assuming that only tightly wound transient spirals are present in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We present a new way of quantum kinetic equation derivation. This method appears as a natural generalization of the many-particle quantum hydrodynamic method. Kinetic equations are derived for different system of particles. First of all we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Pavel A. Andreev

It is well known that due to its divergence at large impact parameters, the Boltzmann collision integral in the kinetic equation for 3D systems of particles interacting through a $1/r$ potential must be replaced by a Balescu-Lenard-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-21 Y. Chaffi , T. M. Rocha Filho , L. Brenig

The current paradigm for understanding galaxy formation in the universe depends on the existence of self-gravitating collisionless dark matter. Modeling such dark matter systems has been a major focus of astrophysicists, with much of that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric I. Barnes , Robert J. Ragan

Quasi-Stationary States of long-range interacting systems have been studied at length over the last fifteen years. It is known that the collisional terms of the Balescu-Lenard and Landau equations vanish for one-dimensional systems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-01 A. Figueiredo , T. M. Rocha Filho , A. E. Santana , M. A. Amato

We consider a kinetic equation describing evolution of a particle distribution function in a system with nonlinear wave-particle interactions (trappings into a resonance and nonlinear scatterings). We study properties of its solutions and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev

The Lenard-Balescu equation is a collisional kinetic model widely used in plasma physics as a Bogoliubov correction to the meanfield Vlasov theory. Unlike the classical Landau and Boltzmann collision operators, the Lenard-Balescu…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Junhwa Jung , Toan T. Nguyen

We investigate the secular dynamics of long-range interacting particles moving on a sphere, in the limit of an axisymmetric mean field potential. We show that this system can be described by the general kinetic equation, the inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mitia Duerinckx , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

One-dimensional self-gravitating systems admit genuine thermodynamical equilibria. For systems with strictly monotonic orbital frequency profile, the Landau and Balescu-Lenard theories predict a relaxation time scaling linearly with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Kerwann Tep , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon

We review and complete the kinetic theory of spatially inhomogeneous stellar systems when collective effects (dressing of the stars by their polarization cloud) are neglected. We start from the BBGKY hierarchy issued from the Liouville…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The secular evolution of an infinitely thin tepid isolated galactic disc made of a finite number of particles is investigated using the inhomogeneous Balescu-Lenard equation expressed in terms of angle-action variables. The matrix method is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , John Magorrian , Pierre-Henri Chavanis
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