H-functions and mixing in violent relaxation
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Publication:4724331
DOI10.1093/mnras/219.2.285zbMath0615.76086MaRDI QIDQ4724331
Scott Tremaine, Michel Hénon, D. Lynden-Bell
Publication date: 1986
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/219.2.285
initial state; phase space distribution function; H-function; collisionless Boltzmann equation; elliptical galaxies; violent relaxation; collisionless systems; equilibrium stellar system; violently relaxed galaxy
76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics
85A05: Galactic and stellar dynamics
82B40: Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics
76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics
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