The cluster expansion for the self-gravitating gas and the thermodynamic limit

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.12.022zbMATH Open1109.82325arXivastro-ph/0307318OpenAlexW2072838724MaRDI QIDQ875749FDOQ875749

Authors: H. J. de Vega, N. G. Sanchez 

Publication date: 16 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop the cluster expansion and the Mayer expansion for the self-gravitating thermal gas and prove the existence and stability of the thermodynamic limit N, V to infty with N/V^{1/3} fixed. The essential (dimensionless) variable is here eta = [G m^2 N]/[V^{1/3} T] (which is kept fixed in the thermodynamic limit). We succeed in this way to obtain the expansion of the grand canonical partition function in powers of the fugacity. The corresponding cluster coefficients behave in the thermodynamic limit as [eta/N]^{j-1} c_j where c_j are pure numbers. They are expressed as integrals associated to tree cluster diagrams. A bilinear recurrence relation for the coefficients c_j is obtained from the mean field equations in the Abel form. In this way the large j behaviour of the c_j is calculated. This large j behaviour provides the position of the nearest singularity which corresponds to the critical point (collapse) of the self-gravitating gas in the grand canonical ensemble. Finally, we discuss why other attempts to define a thermodynamic limit for the self-gravitating gas fail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307318

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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