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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Physics B Année : 2005

The cluster expansion for the self-gravitating gas and the thermodynamic limit

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We develop the cluster expansion and the Mayer expansion for the self-gravitating thermal gas and prove the existence and stability of the thermodynamic limit N,V-->∞ with N/V fixed. The essential (dimensionless) variable is here eta≡GmN(VT) (which is kept fixed in the thermodynamic limit). We succeed in this way to obtain the expansion of the grand canonical partition function in powers of the fugacity. The corresponding cluster coefficients behave in the thermodynamic limit as etac, where c are pure numbers. They are expressed as integrals associated to tree cluster diagrams. A bilinear recurrence relation for the coefficients c is obtained from the mean field equations in the Abel's form. In this way the large j behaviour of the c is calculated. This large j behaviour provides the position of the nearest singularity which corresponds to the critical point (collapse) of the self-gravitating gas in the grand canonical ensemble. Finally, we discuss why other attempts to define a thermodynamic limit for the self-gravitating gas fail.

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hal-03732913 , version 1 (21-07-2022)

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Hector J. de Vega, Norma G. Sánchez. The cluster expansion for the self-gravitating gas and the thermodynamic limit. Nuclear Physics B, 2005, 711, pp.604-620. ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.12.022⟩. ⟨hal-03732913⟩
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