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Trend to Equilibrium of a Degenerate Relativistic Gas

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We examine the problem of the trend to equilibrium for a relativistic gas which may follow Fermi–Dirac, Bose–Einsten, classical Boltzmann statistics. We use the relativistic version of the quasiclassical Boltzmann equation for fermions and bosons, the Uehling–Uhlenbeck equation.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    C. Cercignani

  2. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    G. M. Kremer

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Cercignani, C., Kremer, G.M. Trend to Equilibrium of a Degenerate Relativistic Gas. Journal of Statistical Physics 98, 441–456 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018695426728

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