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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 6 5 d Solution by
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Strict positivity throughout phase space is incompatible with compact support. The following calculation uses positive smooth rapidly decaying solutions with all displayed integrals justified; nonnegative cases use the corresponding entropy limits where justified.
Write and use integration over . The two symmetrized weak collision identities areandThey follow from particle interchange and the angular exchange for elastic collisions. They are the weak identities needed here; no invalid fixed-angle Jacobian is used.
The collision invariants , and obey . Momentum follows from , and energy from . HenceFor the Boltzmann H functional , the spatial transport contribution is a boundary divergence and the term is zero. Set , . The second weak identity with gives the Boltzmann H theoremIndeed this integrand with its negative sign is for , which is nonpositive. The kinetic H functional decreases; the physical entropy with opposite sign increases.
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