A variational principle in statistical mechanics for particle systems with bounded pair interactions
- 1 February 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 16 (2), 438-441
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.522519
Abstract
A gas of particles interacting pairwise via bounded potential is considered in the framework of rigorous statistical mechanics. It is proved that the pressure is the supremum on a class of states of the difference between the entropy and the mean energy.Keywords
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