General relativistic Boltzmann equation, II: Manifestly covariant treatment
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| Publication date | 2009 |
| Journal | Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
| Volume | Issue number | 388 | 9 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1818-1834 |
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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. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Related publication | General relativistic Boltzmann equation, I: Covariant treatment |
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.01.009
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