Abstract
The pressure in a classical Coulomb fluid at equilibrium is obtained from the Maxwell tensor at some point inside the fluid, by a suitable statistical average. For fluids in a Euclidean space, this is a fresh look at known results. But for fluids in a curved space, a case which is of some interest, these unambiguous results from the Maxwell tensor approach have not been obtained by other methods.
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Jancovici, B. Pressure and Maxwell Tensor in a Coulomb Fluid. Journal of Statistical Physics 99, 1281–1295 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018640806624
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