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The aim of this book is to give a mathematical exposition of the foundations of classical statistical mechanics with particular concern for the description of nonequilibrium states for a gas in the Boltzmann-Grad limit. This area has been reaching a certain degree of maturity in recent years, although many problems are still open.
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Cercignani, C., Gerasimenko, V.I., Petrina, D.Y. (1997). The BBGKY Hierarchy. In: Many-Particle Dynamics and Kinetic Equations. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 420. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5558-8_2
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