D -dimensional radiative plasma: a kinetic approach

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/011MaRDI QIDQ4699712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. jun. Maia, J. A. S. Lima

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9610072

zbMATH Keywords

bulk and shear viscositycovariant kinetic approachEckart's temperatureheat conductionhigher-dimensional cosmologiesradiative plasmarelativistic imperfect simple fluidThomson scatteringtransport coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The covariant kinetic approach for the radiative plasma, a mixture of a relativistic moving gas plus radiation quanta (photons, neutrinos, or gravitons) is generalized to D spatial dimensions. The operational and physical meaning of Eckart's temperature is reexamined and the D-dimensional expressions for the transport coefficients (heat conduction, bulk and shear viscosity) are explicitly evaluated to first order in the mean free time of the radiation quanta. Weinberg's conclusion that the mixture behaves like a relativistic imperfect simple fluid (in Eckart's formulation) depends neither on the number of spatial dimensions nor on the details of the collisional term. The case of Thomson scaterring is studied in detail, and some consequences for higher dimensional cosmologies are also discussed.

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