A rigorous derivation of the chemical master equation
Abstract
It is widely believed that the chemical master equation has no rigorous microphysical basis, and hence no a priori claim to validity. This view is challenged here through arguments purporting to show that the chemical master equation is exact for any gas-phase chemical system that is kept well stirred and thermally equilibrated.
- Publication:
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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Pub Date:
- September 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90283-V
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhyA..188..404G