Transport operator

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Does this transport operate by passive diffusion or by facilitated diffusion ... 

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In Section IV, we develop the former results and we study the structure of the transport operator and of the generalized Boltzmann operator. We also analyse the irreducibility condition which appears in Prigogine s theory by using the graphs of equilibrium statistical mechanics. 

In addition, we have calculated the three-body transport operator using Cohen s formalism and, of course, we find an expression which is different from the generalized Boltzmann operator in the same formalism. 

Finally, we attack the problem of the transport coefficients, which, by definition, are calculated in the stationary or quasi-stationary state. The variation of the distribution functions during the time rc is consequently rigorously nil, which allows us to calculate these coefficients from more simple quantities than the generalized Boltzmann operators which we call asymptotic cross-sections or transport operators. 

IV. THE STRUCTURE OF THE TRANSPORT OPERATOR AND OF THE GENERALIZED BOLTZMANN OPERATOR... 

We study next the dynamical irreducibility condition which appeared in the definition of the transport operator. It eliminates from this quantity the reducible collision processes where the particles coming from infinity interact, recede to an infinite distance from one another, and then interact again. We define an extended transport operator from which the irreducibility condition is eliminated and which involves this time the reducible collisions. The relation between the transport operator and the extended transport operator is made explicit by means of a correspondence between the dynamical processes and the Mayer graphs for equilibrium. In this respect, we demonstrate, in these graphs, the importance of the role of the articulation points. 

Finally, we study the structure of the generalized Boltzmann operator. It can be expressed in terms of the transport operator, which allows one to obtain the virial expansion of the generalized Boltzmann equation. The remarkable point here is that the generalized Boltzmann operator can be expressed in terms of non-connected contributions to the transport operator. This happens for the correction proportional to c3 (c = concentration) and for the following terms in the virial expansion of the generalized Boltzmann operator. 

Finally, we calculate the transport operator for three particles in the Cohen formalism. We obtain, evidently, an expression which differs from that for the generalized Boltzmann operator in the same formalism. 

We should now like to express the transport operator for three particles in terms of the streaming operators. We start from expression (74) and we use relation (95) to obtain ... 

Fahien, R. Transport Operations (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1982). 

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It follows from the fermion commutation relations that the entries of a fe-matrix are related by a system of linear equalities. For example, consider the pair transport operator = 2 b a a b + h ala b ), which moves a spin-up, spin-down pair of electrons between sites p,v of A. If we define w o = ... 

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The holonomy represents a parallel-transport operator around C assuming values in a non-Abelian Lie group G. (Interestingly, in the Abelian case, the holonomy has a physical role it is an object playing the role of the phase that can be observed in the Aharonov-Bohm experiment, whereas ,- itself does not have such an interpretation.)... 

Figure 2. Parallel-transport operator along the path L in the surface S.

As a kind of a short introduction for properly manipulating parallel-transport operators along oriented curves, we recall a number of standard facts. It is obvious that we can perform some operations on the parallel-transport operators. We can superimpose them, we can introduce an identity element, and finally, we can find an inverse element for each element. 

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