Rigorous treatment of the liquid-vapor transition in a polydisperse system with Kac interaction (Q625523)

Polydisperse lattice-gas model and polydisperse continuous system interacting with the Kac potential are studied in canonical ensemble formalism. Analytic expressions are derived for free energies. The study is based on the method of \textit{J. L. Lebowitz} and \textit{O. Penrose} [J. Math. Phys. 7, 98--113 (1966; Zbl 0938.82520)] decribed for a nondisperse system. Here, rigorous expressions are obtained which exhibit liquid-vapor transition. For the bi-disperse lattice-gas model, complete phase diagrams are given to show a way of understanding the coexisting phase clearly. The remaining open questions are mentioned.