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Under suitable physically reasonable initial assumptions, a functional central limit theorem is obtained for a nonequilibrium model of randomly interacting particles with unbounded jump intensity. This model is related to a nonlinear Boltzmann-type equation.
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Bezandry, P.H., Fernique, X. & Giroux, G. A functional central limit theorem for a nonequilibrium model of interacting particles with unbounded intensity. J Stat Phys 72, 329–353 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01048053
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