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    F. Alberto Grünbaum

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Communicated by M. Kac

The author wishes to express his deep gratitude to his thesis advisor Professor Henry P. McKean, Jr., under whose guidance this work was carried out. He has encouraged and helped the author all along this research and has made many contributions to make this a more readable work. This is a portion of the author's doctoral dissertation at The Rockefeller University.

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Grünbaum, F.A. Propagation of chaos for the Boltzmann equation. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 42, 323–345 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00250440

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