Successive derivatives of H for a solution of Boltzmann's equation do not alternate
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 15 (7) , L351-L355
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/15/7/005
Abstract
The conjecture that successive time derivatives of the Boltzmann entropy alternate in sign during free thermal relaxation governed by the nonlinear Boltzmann equation is shown to be false: the Bobylev-Krook-Wu solution of this equation is an explicit counter-example.Keywords
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