Classical particles in the continuum subjected to high density boundary conditions (Q2118830)

The paper is focused on the study of the grand canonical pressure of a system of classical particles, confined in a cubic box and interacting via a pair potential at fixed temperature and fugacity, subjected to boundary conditions produced by fixed particles outside the box. In particular, the authors investigate the properties of the pair potential and boundary conditions in order to assure that the pressure in the thermodynamic limiti is well defined. The presented results are a generalization of a previous work by \textit{H.-O. Georgii} [J. Stat. Phys. 80, No. 5--6, 1341--1378 (1995; Zbl 1081.82504)]; in fact, contrarily to this paper, the allowed boundary conditions can have a local density which increases arbitrarily as ones moves away from the origin. Moreover, it is not necessary that the potential diverges in a non-summable way at the origin. Therefore, potentials like the Morse one can be handled within the presented theory. Specifically, the authors prove that the thermodynamic limit of the finite-volume pressure does not depend on boundary conditions generate by particles at fixed positions outside the considered volume as long as these external particles are distributed according to a bounded density. It is also proved the independence of the thermodynamic limit of the pressure of the system in presence of boundary conditions whose density may increase with the distance from the origin at a rate depending on how fast the pair potential decays.