The relativistic kinetic formalism revisited

Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo and L.s Garcı́a-Colı́n

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000, vol. 278, issue 3, 428-439

Abstract: The relativistic Boltzmann equation is used to provide microscopical support to the relativistic Meixner–Prigogine scheme of linear irreversible thermodynamics. A suitable form of the chaotic velocities is employed in order to construct expressions for the total energy four-flux and the pressure tensor, a method that is not used in current approaches to the subject. The non-relativistic equations are shown to be satisfied within this formalism, and important cosmological implications of the theory, such as a modification of the expansion rate in Robertson–Walker–Friedman Universes are finally examined.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00607-X

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