A covariant kinetic equation for a self-gravitating system

Henry E. Kandrup

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1984, vol. 126, issue 3, 461-473

Abstract: Recently, Israel and Kandrup have developed a new, manifestly covariant approach to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in classical general relativity. One by-product of that approach has been the formulation of an approximate kinetic equation for the evolution of a self-gravitating system, valid in an “impulse” or “weak coupling” approximation in the limit that radiative effects may be neglected. This paper exploits the theory of random functions to present a much simpler derivation of that approximate kinetic equation.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(84)90212-7

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