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Dynamics of interacting Brownian particles: a diagrammatic formulation Grzegorz Szamel Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (Dated: February 1, 2008) We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluc- tuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that consists of orthogonalized many-particle density fluctuations. We obtain an exact hierarchy of equations of motion for time-dependent correlations of orthogonalized density fluctuations. To simplify this hierarchy we neglect contributions to the vertices from higher-order cluster expansion terms. An iterative solution of the resulting equations 7 0 can be represented by diagrams with three and four-leg vertices. We analyze the structure of the 0 diagrammatic series for the time-dependent density correlation function and obtain a diagrammatic 2 interpretation of reducible and irreducible memory functions. The one-loop self-consistent approx- imation for the latter function coincides with mode-coupling approximation for Brownian systems n that was derived previously using a projection operator approach. u J 1 I. INTRODUCTION coupling theory13 that has been extensively used to de- 2 scr