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Two kinetic theories for bimolecular chemical reactions in dilute gases are analyzed and compared. Reactive scattering kernels are constructed, satisfying microreversibility principles and yielding a physically plausible link between the two models. Mathematical properties and in particular the role played by microreversibility conditions and by certain elastic collisional terms on existence of solutions are also investigated.
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Groppi, M., Polewczak, J. On Two Kinetic Models for Chemical Reactions: Comparisons and Existence Results. Journal of Statistical Physics 117, 211–241 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOSS.0000044059.59066.a9
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