The Boltzmann-Grad limit for the Lorentz gas with a Poisson distribution of obstacles

DOI10.3934/KRM.2022001MaRDI QIDQ2087589zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Golse

Publication date 21 October 2022

Published in Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15270

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationkinetic theoryPoisson point processBoltzmann-Grad limitLorentz gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: In this note, we propose a slightly different proof of Gallavotti's theorem ["Statistical Mechanics: A Short Treatise", Springer, 1999, pp. 48--55] on the derivation of the linear Boltzmann equation for the Lorentz gas with a Poisson distribution of obstacles in the Boltzmann-Grad limit.

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