Proof of Murphy-Cohen conjecture on one-dimensional hard ball systems

DOI10.1007/S11401-006-0135-2zbMATH Open1186.37048arXivmath/0601206OpenAlexW1967113411WikidataQ123141356 ScholiaQ123141356MaRDI QIDQ2385391FDOQ2385391

Authors: Lizhou Chen 

Publication date: 12 October 2007

Published in: Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the Murphy and Cohen's conjecture that the maximum number of collisions of n + 1 elastic particles moving freely on a line is n(n+1)/2 if no interior particle has mass less than the arithmetic mean of the masses of its immediate neighbors. In fact, we prove the stronger result that, for the same conclusion, the condition no interior particle has mass less than the geometric mean, rather than the arithmetic mean, of the masses of its immediate neighbors suffices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601206

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zbMATH Keywords

billiardreflection groupelastic collisionnumbers gamehard ball

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) (n)-body problems (70F10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

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