The form of the reaction rates in the birth-and-death formalism of a chemical reaction is obtained by applying the principle of stationarity of the thermodynamic equilibrium distribution.

By using the spectral theory of the master equation, it is shown generally that a self-catalytic chemical system may evolve according to two widely different time scales in this case. The shorter one describes the evolution towards a quasi-stationary state which is the stochastic equivalent of...

In a previous communication the Boltzmann equations for a bimolecular chemical reaction were transformed into an infinite system of quadratic differential equations. It is shown here that the reaction rate may be calculated approximately by using the first differential equation only, which is a...