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We study a model of random colliding particles interacting with an infinite reservoir at fixed temperature and chemical potential. Interaction between the particles is modeled via a Kac master equation cite{kac}. Moreover, particles can leave the system toward the reservoir or enter the system from the reservoir. The system admits a unique steady state given by the Grand Canonical Ensemble at temperature $T=beta^{-1}$ and chemical potential $chi$. We show that any initial state converges exponentially to equilibrium by computing the spectral gap of the generator in a suitable $L^2$ space and by showing exponential decrease of the relative entropy with respect to the steady state. We also show propagation of chaos and thus the validity of a Boltzmann-Kac type equation for the particle density in the infinite system limit.
We consider solutions to the Kac master equation for initial conditions where $N$ particles are in a thermal equilibrium and $Mle N$ particles are out of equilibrium. We show that such solutions have exponential decay in entropy relative to the therm
We consider a system of $M$ particles in contact with a heat reservoir of $Ngg M$ particles. The evolution in the system and the reservoir, together with their interaction, are modeled via the Kacs Master Equation. We chose the initial distribution w
We introduce a global thermostat on Kacs 1D model for the velocities of particles in a space-homogeneous gas subjected to binary collisions, also interacting with a (local) Maxwellian thermostat. The global thermostat rescales the velocities of all t
We use the Fourier based Gabetta-Toscani-Wennberg (GTW) metric $d_2$ to study the rate of convergence to equilibrium for the Kac model in $1$ dimension. We take the initial velocity distribution of the particles to be a Borel probability measure $mu$
This article reviews recent work on the Kac master equation and its low dimensional counterpart, the Kac equation.