Angular exchange for elastic collisions
ID: angular-exchange-for-elastic-collisions
Write incoming relative velocity as and outgoing relative velocity as . For isotropic scattering, the product measure is invariant under exchanging the two angular variables. This gives the pre/post-collision weak identities. Keeping fixed and sending only the velocities to the outgoing pair is not invertible: that map discards the incoming angular direction.
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