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Communications in Mathematical Sciences
Volume 8 (2010)
Number 1
Special Issue on the Occasion of Andrew Majda’s Sixtieth Birthday: Part I
On the high intensity limit of interacting corpora
Pages: 173 – 186
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CMS.2010.v8.n1.a9
Authors
Abstract
We characterize the high intensity limits of minimal free energy states for interacting corpora - that is, for objects with finitely many degrees of freedom, such as articulated rods. These limits are measures supported on zero-level-sets of the interaction potential. We describe a selection mechanism for the limits that is mediated by evanescent entropic contributions.
Keywords
Onsager equation, free energy, zero temperature limit, metric space
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
58D99, 82D30
Published 1 January 2010