White offers an unstated challenge to studies of how wars end by maintaining that war and peace are a continuum in the struggle for power, that both are "equally inconclusive", and, by implication, hardly distinguishable from each other (or not distinguishable in ways White regards as...

The one-particle distribution for the modulus of the velocity of a hard-disk fluid inside a small circular cavity is studied. Due to the geometry of the cavity, the total angular momentum L is conserved if the (elastic) particle–wall collisions are specular, leading to a new, special...

The mean field equilibrium magnetization distribution for a finite-size Ising model with pair and quartet interactions is used to monitor the first- and second-order phase transitions exhibited by this system. In the first-order transition region (triple point line) the magnetization...

The distribution of the number of hard-core objects deposited in a finite region through a random sequential adsorption process is analyzed. Three idealized model probability distributions for this problem are tested by comparing them with computer simulation distributions for the random...

The fluctuations in the number of aligned and unaligned hard-squares deposited on a subvolume of a finite flat surface through a random sequential adsorption process are analyzed from Monte Carlo computer simulations. Approximate expressions for the coverage dependence of the relative...

A simple approximate expression is proposed for the energy dependence of the microcanonical density of states of a classical hard-particle fluid column of infinite height in a uniform gravitational field. This expression is based on the exact result in one dimension and depends on an effective...

The microcanonical molecular dynamics ensemble describes a system with a fixed number of particles in a given volume and with constant total energy and total linear momentum. The primary phase integrals of this ensemble for a hard-core fluid are derived by using geometrical arguments. The...

The use of periodic boundary conditions in molecular-dynamics simulations leads to the microcanonical EVNMG ensemble of Ray and Zhang [J.R. Ray, H. Zhang, Phys. Rev. E 59 (1999) 4781] in which the total linear momentum M and the generator of infinitesimal Galilean boosts G are conserved...