Convergence to equilibrium due to collisions with external particles

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Authors A. A. Lykov, V. A. Malyshev

Publication date 17 September 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08242

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann hypothesiscollisionsergodicityparticle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Problems involving a system of particles with friction (70F40) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: We consider a class of "most non ergodic" particle systems and prove that for most of them ergodicity appears if only one particle of N has contact with external world, that is this particle collides with external particles in random time moments.

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