Paper 1, Section II, 28K
The particles of an Ideal Gas form a spatial Poisson process on with constant intensity , called the activity of the gas.
(a) Prove that the independent mixture of two Ideal Gases with activities and is again an Ideal Gas. What is its activity? [You must prove any results about Poisson processes that you use. The independent mixture of two gases with particles and is given by
(b) For an Ideal Gas of activity , find the limiting distribution of
as for a given sequence of subsets with .
(c) Let be a smooth non-negative function vanishing outside a bounded subset of . Find the mean and variance of , where the sum runs over the particles of an ideal gas of activity . [You may use the properties of spatial Poisson processes established in the lectures.]
[Hint: recall that the characteristic function of a Poisson random variable with mean is