The Boltzmann-Grad limit of a hard sphere system: analysis of the correlation error (Q517431)

The problem of exact mathematical foundations for the movement of interacting many-particles systems is of complex fundamental problems of physical kinetics, which has not only abstract interest but related, e.g., to the system of granular gases. This work considers a special problem in this field, namely, the low density limit of hard spheres, the collisions of which are governed by the laws of elastic reflection. The principal focus is on the estimation of the correlation errors in many-particles systems, i.e. a measure of statistical dependence between particles in disjoint regios as wells as the extension of this approach: the problem of propagation of chaos that means consideration of particles sets as independent during a time evolution of the system.