BBGKY hierarchy
Jerarquía BBGKY
- Date
- 1935-1947 · confidence low
- Place
- Moscow, Russia
- Credited to
- Nikolai Bogolyubov, Max Born, Herbert S. Green, John G. Kirkwood and Jacques Yvon
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The BBGKY (Bogolyubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon) hierarchy is a set of coupled equations describing the dynamics of a system of many interacting particles, where the equation for the s-particle distribution function involves the (s+1)-particle one. It is a central tool of statistical physics.
What it led to
- Basis for deriving the Boltzmann equation from first principles
- Closure methods in statistical physics and fluid dynamics
- Applications in plasma physics and quantum statistical mechanics