Abstract
We consider a dilute gas of hard spheres under shear. We use one of the predominant models to study this system, namely, the so-called SLLOD equations of motion, with an isokinetic Gaussian thermostat in between collisions, to get a stationary total peculiar kinetic energy. Based on the previously obtained result that in the nonequilibrium steady state and in the case the number of particles N becomes large, the coefficient of dynamical friction representing the isokinetic Gaussian thermostat for the SLLOD dynamics fluctuates with 1/sqrt[N] fluctuations around a fixed value, we show on analytical grounds that for a hard sphere gas at small shear rate and with a large number of spheres, the conjugate pairing of the Lyapunov exponents is expected to be violated at the fourth power of the constant shear rate in the bulk.
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