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Non-extensive statistics and the stellar polytrope index

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We use physical constrains imposed from the H-Theorem and from the negative nature of the heat capacity of self-gravitating thermodynamically isolated systems to investigate some possible limits on the stellar polytrope index nn within the domain of a classical non-extensive kinetic theory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402245,
  title  = {Non-extensive statistics and the stellar polytrope index},
  author = {R. Silva and J. S. Alcaniz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402245},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX

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