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| Publication date |
2009
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| Journal |
Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
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| Volume | Issue number |
388 | 9
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| Pages (from-to) |
1818-1834
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
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| Abstract |
In a preceding article we presented a general relativistic treatment of the derivation of the Boltzmann equation. The four-momenta occurring in this formalism were all on-shell four-momenta, verifying the mass-shell restriction p(2) = m(2)c(2). Due to this restriction, the resulting Boltzmann equation, although covariant, turned out to be not manifestly covariant. In the present article we switch from mass-shell momenta to off-shell momenta, and thereby arrive at a Boltzmann equation that is manifestly covariant.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Related publication |
General relativistic Boltzmann equation, I: Covariant treatment
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.01.009
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