On Molecular Chaos and the Kirkwood Superposition Hypothesis

1 November 1960

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 33 (5) , 1342-1348
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1731410

Abstract

We consider properties which are possessed by typical functions of very many variables such as the n-particle molecular distribution function of a dynamical system. We show that such a function ``selected at random'' will in all likelihood approximately satisfy the molecular chaos condition and, to a better approximation, will very likely satisfy the Kirkwood superposition relation.

Keywords

DYNAMIC SYSTEM
SATISFIABILITY
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION

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The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes II. Transport in Gases
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1947