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Exact finite ideal-gas volume fluctuations
Fixed-N ideal gas in the declared dV/V0 isothermal-isobaric preparation with positive external pressure; excludes alternative piston priors and experimental claims.
Example
Let , , , , , , and . Use the unit-Lebesgue-volume shape and scaled coordinates , of Isothermal-isobaric joint preparation, with physical positions . Define the kinetic energy and Hamiltonian by In the adopted joint reference times the scaled position-momentum reference, the weight is . Its normalization is The volume mean and variance and mean enthalpy are The extra one in the finite- volume factor follows from the stated prior; it is not a universal piston correction.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The ideal-gas Hamiltonian, shape-scaled volume domain, adopted preparation and positive finite parameters.
The volume density is proportional to under the adopted preparation (Isothermal-isobaric joint preparation, inherited by Isobaric volume and enthalpy fluctuations).
, , and the spatial reference shape has unit dimensionless volume; is a fixed positive volume scale. Energy and action units follow Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework; temperature and follow SI quantities and unit conventions. The adopted preparation fixes in m and in J m, so is an energy.
The Gaussian integral gives the unit integral . For , the linear substitution gives ; applying it in each of the momentum coordinates yields .
The isobaric response identities apply under their local moment envelopes (Isobaric volume and enthalpy fluctuations).
Verification
Given: [A1]–[A2] and the Gaussian and isobaric-response facts [F1]–[F2].
Integrating the momentum factors gives [F1]; integrating the unit shape coordinates gives one, while the configuration scaling contributes . Hence Let . Direct integration gives ; integration by parts, with at infinity and vanishing lower boundary for , gives . Thus , and cancels the in the reference; the displayed finite positive normalizer follows.
The normalized volume density is . Applying the same integral formula to and gives and . Subtracting the square of the mean gives . Since , these are the claimed volume moments.
To check [F2], first use fixed sufficient statistics with coefficients . On a compact positive set, choose lower bounds . For , absorbing the quadratic polynomial into half of each exponential gives This is integrable against the full reference : the momentum integral is Gaussian by [F1] and the volume integral is by step 1.1. At any fixed pressure , the statistics satisfy . In a small compact neighborhood of both coefficients are bounded strictly below zero; gives the same Gaussian-volume majorant. Thus the exact local exponential envelopes for [F2] hold, including the kinetic-energy factor.
The momentum factors are independent of . For , the boundary term vanishes at both infinities, and integration of gives . Dividing by the positive Gaussian normalizer [F1] and summing the components gives . Step 2.1 gives ; adding the two finite means proves . The envelope check in step 2.2 also licenses the response identities [F2] for this preparation.
Remarks
If , the normalization contains and diverges. If , its integrand grows exponentially at large and also diverges. Thus the positive-pressure condition is essential.