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Relativistic kinetics and power-law–tailed distributions

Published 12 November 2010 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation G. Kaniadakis 2010 EPL 92 35002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/92/35002

0295-5075/92/3/35002

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the relativistic statistical theory, introduced in Phys. Rev. E, 66 (2002) 056125 and Phys. Rev. E, 72 (2005) 036108, predicting the particle distribution function p(E)=expκ(−β[Eμ]) with and κ2<1. This, experimentally observed, relativistic distribution, at low energies behaves as the exponential, Maxwell-Boltzmann classical distribution, while at high energies presents power-law tails. Here, we obtain the evolution equation, conducting asymptotically to the above distribution, by using a new deductive procedure, starting from the relativistic BBGKY hierarchy and by employing the relativistic molecular chaos hypothesis.

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