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Relativistic anti-fragility

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It is shown that the barbell distribution of a gas of relativistic molecules above its critical temperature can be interpreted as an anti-fragile response to the relativistic constraint of sub-luminal propagation.

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Acknowledgements

This research leading has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (No. FP/2014-2020)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 739964 (COPMAT). I am grateful to A. Montessori, A. Gabbana and R. Tripiccione for valuable discussions.

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  1. Center for Life Nanoscience at la Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, viale Regina Elena 295, 00161, Rome, Italy

    Sauro Succi

  2. Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo CNR, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Sauro Succi

  3. Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Sauro Succi

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Succi, S. Relativistic anti-fragility. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135, 230 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00255-5

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