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Selfadjointness of the Liouville operator for infinite classical systems

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We study some properties of the time evolution of an infinite one dimensional hard cores system with singular two body interaction. We show that the Liouville operator is essentially antiselfadjoint on the algebra of local observables. Some consequences of this result are also discussed.

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Communicated by J. L. Lebowitz

Research partially supported by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, G.N.F.M.

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Marchioro, C., Pellegrinotti, A. & Pulvirenti, M. Selfadjointness of the Liouville operator for infinite classical systems. Commun.Math. Phys. 58, 113–129 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609415

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