A statistical mechanical problem in Schwarzschild spacetime

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0416-4MaRDI QIDQ995895zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Collas, David Klein

Publication date 10 September 2007

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603086

zbMATH Keywords

Fermi coordinatesSchwarzschild spacetimeStatistical mechanicsIdeal gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We use Fermi coordinates to calculate the canonical partition function for an ideal gas in a circular geodesic orbit in Schwarzschild spacetime. To test the validity of the results we prove theorems for limiting cases. We recover the Newtonian gas law subject only to tidal forces in the Newtonian limit. Additionally we recover the special relativistic gas law as the radius of the orbit increases to infinity. We also discuss how the method can be extended to the non ideal gas case.

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