A solution to the combinatorial puzzle of Mayer's virial expansion

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/18zbMATH Open1337.82005arXiv1402.2119OpenAlexW3105785711MaRDI QIDQ747600FDOQ747600

Authors: Stephen James Tate 

Publication date: 16 October 2015

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Mayer's second theorem in the context of a classical gas model allows us to write the coefficients of the virial expansion of pressure in terms of weighted two-connected graphs. Labelle, Leroux and Ducharme studied the graph weights arising from the one-dimensional hardcore gas model and noticed that the sum of these weights over all two-connected graphs with $n$ vertices is $-n(n-2)!$. This paper addresses the question of achieving a purely combinatorial proof of this observation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2119

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zbMATH Keywords

involutioncluster expansionvirial expansionhard-core gasTonks gastwo-connected graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signed and weighted graphs (05C22) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

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