On the high intensity limit of interacting corpora

We characterize the high intensity limits of minimal free energy states for interacting corpora - that is, for objects with finitely many degrees of freedom, such as articulated rods. These limits are measures supported on zero-level-sets of the interaction potential. We describe a selection mechanism for the limits that is mediated by evanescent entropic contributions.

Keywords

Onsager equation, free energy, zero temperature limit, metric space

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

58D99, 82D30

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Published 1 January 2010