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We prove the existence of the Boltzmann-Enskog limit for an equilibrium system of hard spheres. On the basis of analysis of the Kirkwood-Salsburg equations, we show that the limit distribution functions are constants that can be represented as series in density.
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Published in Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1195–1205, September, 1997.
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Lampis, M., Petrina, D.Y. Boltzmann-Enskog limit for equilibrium states of systems of hard spheres in the framework of a canonical ensemble. Ukr Math J 49, 1345–1356 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487342
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487342