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We study a mechanical system that was considered by Boltzmann in 1868 in the context of the derivation of the canonical and microcanonical ensembles. This system was introduced as an example of ergodic dynamics, which was central to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Giovanni Gallavotti , Ian Jauslin

The hydrodynamic limit and Newtonian limit are important in the relativistic kinetic theory. We justify rigorously the validity of the two independent limits from the special relativistic Boltzmann equation to the classical Euler equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Yong Wang , Changguo Xiao

Let a number, N, of particles interact classically through Newton's Laws of Motion and Newton's inverse square Law of Gravitation. The resulting equations of motion provide an approximate mathematical model with numerous applications in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

We prove the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium state with unit mass to the dissipative linear Boltzmann equation with hard--spheres collision kernel describing inelastic interactions of a gas particles with a fixed background. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bertrand Lods , Giuseppe Toscani

In this Note we present the main results from the recent work arxiv:1107.3251, which answers several conjectures raised fifty years ago by Kac. There Kac introduced a many-particle stochastic process (now denoted as Kac's master equation)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

This is the first one of two papers on the global dynamics of the original Boltzmann equations without angular cutoff on the torus. We address the problem for the hard potentials and Maxwellian molecules in the present paper. The case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Ling-Bing He , Jin-Cheng Jiang

We present a kinetic theory for inhomogeneous systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear theory, we obtain a closed kinetic equation describing the relaxation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A system of N particles eN=(x1,v1,...,xN,vN) interacting self-consistently with M waves Zn=An*exp(iTn) is considered. Hamiltonian dynamics transports initial data (eN(0),Zn(0)) to (eN(t),Zn(t)). In the limit of an infinite number of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 M. C. Firpo , Y. Elskens

Bekenstein and Mayo proposed a generalised bound for the entropy, which implies some inequalities between the charge, energy, angular momentum, and the size of the macroscopic system. Dain has shown that Maxwell's electrodynamics satisfies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 M. L. Peñafiel , F. T. Falciano

In the article correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert's and Enskog's methods are discussed. The equations system of multicomponent non-equilibrium gas dynamics is derived, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-27 S. A. Serov , S. S. Serova

Deng, Hani, and Ma [arXiv:2503.01800] claim to resolve Hilbert's Sixth Problem by deriving the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations from Newtonian mechanics via an iterated limit: a Boltzmann-Grad limit (\(\varepsilon \to 0\), \(N…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Shan Gao

A statistical thermodynamic approach of moving particles forming an elastic body is presented which leads to reveal molecular-mechanical properties of classical and nonextensive dynamical systems. We derive the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrique Canessa

We investigate a kinetic model for interacting particles whose masses are integer multiples of an elementary mass. These particles undergo binary collisions which preserve momentum and energy but during which some number of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Pierre Degond , Jian-Guo Liu

A general framework for the kinetic modelling of non-relativistic polyatomic gases is proposed,where each particle is characterized both by its velocity and by its internal state, and the Boltzmann collisionoperator involves suitably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Thomas Borsoni , Marzia Bisi , Maria Groppi

The adiabatic piston problem is solved at the mesoscale using a Kinetic Theory approach. The problem is to determine the evolution towards equilibrium of two gases separated by a wall with only one degree of freedom (the adiabatic piston).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-09 Nagi Khalil

The known nonlinear kinetic equations (in particular, the wave kinetic equation and the quantum Nordheim -- Uehling -- Uhlenbeck equations) are considered as a natural generalization of the classical spatially homogeneous Boltzmann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 A. V. Bobylev

A nonlinear Lorentz invariant kinetic diffusion equation is introduced, which is consistent with the conservation laws of particles number, energy and momentum. The equilibrium solution converges to the Maxwellian density in the Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Simone Calogero

Despite well over a century of effort, the proper expression for the classical entropy in statistical mechanics remains a subject of debate. The Boltzmann entropy (calculated from a surface in phase space) has been criticized as not being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-12 Robert H. Swendsen

We consider the relativistic statistical mechanics of an ensemble of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau .$ We generalize the approach of Yang and Yao, based on the Wigner distribution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

In this paper we demonstrate that Boltzmann's $H$-theorem does not necessarily hold in the context of theories of gravity with nonminimally coupled matter fields. We find sufficient conditions for the violation of Boltzmann's $H$-theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 P. P. Avelino , R. P. L. Azevedo