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Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74 (2):335-358 (2023)
Abstract
I present a new perspective on the meaning of indistinguishability of classical particles. This leads to a solution to the problem in statistical mechanics of justifying the inclusion of a factor N! in a probability distribution over the phase space of N indistinguishable classical particles.My notes
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