Relativistic statistical mechanics with angular momentum

DOI10.1143/PTP.127.153MaRDI QIDQ2895896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tadas K. Nakamura

Publication date 13 July 2012

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0959

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theoryrelativistic statistical mechanicsrelativistic thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: The equilibrium distribution function of a relativistic ideal gas has been derived to include the effect of angular momentum. The result agrees with the one obtained from kinetic theory, and consistent with relativistic thermodynamics. The role of angular momentum becomes transparent in this derivation, and the equilibrium distribution can be generalized to accommodate the effect of intrinsic angular momentum. The results here is for a flat spacetime, however, same approach can be applied to static curved spacetimes.

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