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The relativistic canonical formalism is used to construct the kinetic equations for a gas in a gravitational field, whose particles interact with one another via numerous inelastic collisions. Boltzmann's H-theorem is proved for T-invariant interactions.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 19–23, August, 1983.
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Ignat'ev, Y.G. Relativistic kinetic equations for inelastically interacting particles in a gravitational field. Soviet Physics Journal 26, 690–694 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898875
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898875