Entropy is the only increasing functional of Kac's one-dimensional caricature of a Maxwellian gas

DOI10.1007/BF00531969zbMATH Open0129.43605OpenAlexW2082848154MaRDI QIDQ5339019FDOQ5339019

Authors: Henry P. McKean 

Publication date: 1963

Published in: Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00531969

zbMATH Keywords

mechanics of particles and systems

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• Asymptotic of grazing collisions and particle approximation for the Kac equation without Cutoff
• Probabilistic Investigations on the Explosion of Solutions of the KAC Equation with Infinite Energy Initial Distribution
• Speed of approach to equilibrium for Kac's caricature of a Maxwellian gas
• On the connection of the formulas for entroy and stationary distribution
• Some mathematical problems related to the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of infinitely many particles
• Remarks on entropy and equilibrium states
• Proof that Successive Derivatives of Boltzmann's H Function for a Discrete Velocity Gas Alternate in Sign
• Chaos, ergodicity, and equilibria in a quantum Kac model
• On applications of Orlicz spaces to statistical physics

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