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Uniform Approximation of a Maxwellian Thermostat by Finite Reservoirs (1603.03180v2)
Published 10 Mar 2016 in math-ph and math.MP
Abstract: We study the evolution of a system of M particles in contact with a large reservoir of N>>M particles. The reservoir is initially in equilibrium at temperature T=1/\beta. The evolution of the system and reservoir is described via a suitable Kac-style collision process. We show that for large N, this evolution can be effectively described by replacing the reservoir with a Maxwellian thermostat at temperature T. This description provides an approximation that is uniform in time both in a suitable L2 norm and in the Gabetta-Toscani-Wennberg (GTW) distance.
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