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Monotonic evolution of Boltzmann's H in weakly coupled gravitational systems

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GASES with gravitational interactions are expected to evolve away from a state of uniform density and temperature1,2. Such behaviour has been strikingly confirmed by numerical experiments on small gravitational systems3.

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  1. Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, The University of Texas at Austin,

    M. J. HAGGERTY

  2. Faculty of Sciences, Free University of Brussels, Avenue F.-D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    G. SEVERNE

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HAGGERTY, M., SEVERNE, G. Monotonic evolution of Boltzmann's H in weakly coupled gravitational systems. Nature 249, 537–538 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249537a0

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