For a dilute gas interacting through a short range potential, we have obtai
ned, by starting from the quantum mechanical Hamiltonian, a closed set of e
volution equations for the particle distribution and for the expectation va
lues of the four-field-operator products. The set of equations is invariant
under time reversal. The evolution equation for the particle distribution
depends on the initial conditions, and reduces to the Boltzmann transport e
quation for almost all initial states.