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This review is a kinetic theory study investigating the effects of inelasticity on the structure of the non-equilibrium states, in particular on the behavior of the velocity distribution in the high energy tails. Starting point is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Brito , M. H. Ernst

In the first sections of this article, we discuss two variations on Maxwell's equations that have been introduced in earlier work--a class of nonlinear Maxwell theories with well-defined Galilean limits (and correspondingly generalized…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio A. Ascoli , Gerald A. Goldin

We give necessary and sufficient conditions to characterize the convergence in distribution of a sequence of arbitrary random variables to a probability distribution which is the invariant measure of a diffusion process. This class of…

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We consider collisional models for granular particles and analyze the conditions under which the restitution coefficient might be a constant. We show that these conditions are not consistent with known collision laws. From the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai V. Brilliantov , Thorsten Poeschel

Following the original approach of Maxwell-Boltzmann(MB), we derive a 4-velocity distribution function for the relativistic ideal gas. This distribution function perfectly reduces to original MB distribution in the non-relativistic limit.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Prasad Basu , Soumen Mondal

In this paper, using of the rigorous statement and rigorous proof the Maxwell distribution as an example, we establish estimates of the distribution depending on the parameter $N$, the number of particles. Further, we consider the problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 V. P. Maslov

A general recipe proposed elsewhere to define, via Noether theorem, the variation of energy for a natural field theory is applied to Einstein-Maxwell theory. The electromagnetic field is analysed in the geometric framework of natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Allemandi , M. Francaviglia , M. Raiteri

On transformation to the Fourier space $({\bf k}, \omega)$, the partial differential Maxwell equations simplify to algebraic equations, and the Helmholtz theorem of vector calculus reduces to vector algebraic projections. Maxwell equations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chun Wa Wong

The goal of this article is to establish general principles for high frequency dispersive estimates for Maxwell's equation in the exterior of a perfectly conducting ball. We construct entirely new generalized eigenfunctions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Alden Waters , Yan-Long Fang

To address the observation of Max Born (M. Born 1969) that the Newton's second law can emerge from a purely statistical perspective, we derive the evolution equation about the statistical distribution for dilute gas based solely on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong Yuan , Chang-Pu Sun

We study the velocity distribution function for inelastic Maxwell models, characterized by a Boltzmann equation with constant collision rate, independent of the energy of the colliding particles. By means of a nonlinear analysis of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthieu H. Ernst , Ricardo Brito

We look at the equilibrium of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous space following the alternative approach proposed in ref.[1]. We consider a coordinate dependent damping that makes the stochastic dynamics the one with multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-07 Avik Biswas , A. Bhattacharyay

Boltzmann's Principle S = k ln W was repeatedly criticized by Einstein since it lacked a proper dynamical foundation in view of the thermal motion of the particles, out of which a physical system consists. This suggests, in particular, that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-11 E. G. D. Cohen

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

We provide the first and rigorous confirmations of the hypotheses by Ludwig Boltzmann in his seminal paper \cite{Boltzmann} within the context of the Landau equation in the presence of a harmonic potential. We prove that (i) Each {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Chuqi Cao , Ling-Bing He , Jie Ji

Paper in honour of Freeman Dyson on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Normal N-body systems relax to equilibrium distributions in which classical kinetic energy components are 1/2 kT, but, when inter-particle forces are an inverse cubic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lynden-Bell , R. M. Lynden-Bell

Nonthermal velocity distributions with much greater tails than the Maxwellian have been observed for radical atoms in plasmas for a long time. Historically, such velocity distributions have been modeled by a two-temperature Maxwell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Keisuke Fujii

We give a geometric formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kramer equations for a particle moving on a Lie algebra under the influence of a dissipative and a random force. Special cases of interest are fluid mechanics, the Stochastic Loewner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 S. G. Rajeev

The theory of equidistribution is about hundred years old, and has been developed primarily by number theorists and theoretical computer scientists. A motivated uninitiated peer could encounter difficulties perusing the literature, due to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Vlada Limic , Nedžad Limić

On the basis of new, concise foundations, this paper establishes the four laws of thermodynamics, the Maxwell relations, and the stability requirements for response functions, in a form applicable to global (homogeneous), local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-28 Arnold Neumaier
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