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Bulletin de la Classe des sciences

Commutator of an arbitrary superoperator with the « asymptotic » evolution operator of a many-body system

J. B. Aderca

Published Jan 1, 1979• 0 citations

Abstract

In the frame of the theory of subdynamics a general picture of the time evolution of a many-body system has been developed by the Brussels school of statistical mechanics. In this paper, we avoid the perturbation scheme so that we get compact notations and demonstrations. We derive here a general expression for the commutator of an arbitrary superoperator W with the " asymptotic " evolution superoperator Σ(t) = ΠU(t) where [formula] is the complete evolution superoperator and where Π is the usual superprojector of the theory of subdynamics. In the frame of relativistic non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the application of this commutator to all the generators of the Poincaré group is then given and we get back in particular the fundamental property of commutation with Π of the Lorentz-Liouville superoperator.

DOI: 10.3406/barb.1979.58501

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