## Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

### The virial series for a gas of particles with uniformly repulsive pairwise interaction and its relation with the approach to the mean field

Domingos H. U. Marchetti

#### Abstract

The pressure of a gas of particles with a uniformly repulsive pair interaction in a finite container is shown to satisfy (exactly as a formal object) a “viscous” Hamilton–Jacobi (H–J) equation whose solution in power series is recursively given by the variation of constants formula. We investigate the solution of the H–J and of its Legendre transform equation by the Cauchy-majorant method and provide a lower bound to the radius of convergence on the virial series of the fluid which goes beyond the threshold established by Lagrange’s inversion formula. Such results obtained in (On the virial series for a gas of particles with uniformly repulsive pairwise interactions (2014) Preprint) are reviewed and regarded as the first step towards the solution of a problem posed by Kac, Uhlenbeck and Hemmer (J. Math. Phys. 4 (1963) 216–228), questioning on the relation of the approach to the mean field theory with Ursell–Mayer expansion.

#### Article information

Source
Braz. J. Probab. Stat., Volume 29, Number 2 (2015), 502-539.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 15 April 2015

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1429105600

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/14-BJPS261

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3336878

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1319.35196

#### Citation

Marchetti, Domingos H. U. The virial series for a gas of particles with uniformly repulsive pairwise interaction and its relation with the approach to the mean field. Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 29 (2015), no. 2, 502--539. doi:10.1214/14-BJPS261. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1429105600

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