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In a system which consists of many interacting particles, the weak-coupling assumption allows us to introduce a well controlled approximation to consider the chain of the equations for correlation functions. This leads to a very significant simplification of the original collisional integral to describe collisional relaxation and transport in astrophysical plasma but not in self-gravitating systems.
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(2006). Weakly-Coupled Systems with Binary Collisions. In: Plasma Astrophysics, Part I. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 340. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48427-3_4
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