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The Collective Coordinates Jacobian

Moshe Schwartz, Guy Vinograd

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0110579

Abstract

We develop an expansion for the Jacobian of the transformation from particle coordinates to collective coordinates. As a demonstration, we use the lowest order of the expansion in conjunction with a variational principle to obtain the Percus Yevick equation for a monodisperse hard sphere system and the Lebowitz equations for a polydisperse hard sphere system.

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