Positive definiteness of the mobility matrix for computer simulations of suspensions of hard spheres with stick hydrodynamic boundary conditions

Abstract We give an outline derivation of an infinite hierarchy of approximations to the mobility matrix for a suspension of N hard spheres with stick hydrodynamic boundary conditions. We show that all the approximations to the mobility matrix are positive definite.

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