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Saturday, 24 November 2012

Exposition of Derivation of Boltzmann Equation (and More!)

Chapter 2 of this paper has a nice exposition of the derivation of the Boltzmann equation from the Liouville equation for hard spheres. Chapter 1 has a discussion of the Boltzmann-Grad limit, which we also discussed in lectures. This article looks really nice!

(Tip of the cap to Mark Wilkinson.)