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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 7 4 c Solution by
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Write and integrate the Kac master equation over . For a pair , the rotation acts only on integrated variables. Its unit Jacobian determinant makes the integrated gain identical to the integrated loss, so all those pairs cancel.
The only remaining pairs are , . For such a pair, first integrate over every variable except and . This yields the corresponding two-coordinate marginal distribution evaluated at the rotated pair. Permutation symmetry of makes all resulting integrals identical to the one for . The coefficient isConsequently the Kac marginal evolution equation isThe time argument has been suppressed on the right. The loss is consistent with normalization, since . Under the printed definition , this use of requires . For the same formula holds with the natural extension .
This identity is exact and generally unclosed. Replacing the two-coordinate marginal distribution by the product of one-coordinate marginals would produce the quadratic collision equation associated with Kac chaos. Permutation symmetry alone does not imply that product approximation.
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