Pressure and Maxwell Tensor in a Coulomb Fluid
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v2
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 an Euclidean space, this is a fresh look on known results. But, for fluids in a curved space, a case which is of some interest, the unambiguous results from the Maxwell tensor approach have not been obtained by other methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9912246,
title = {Pressure and Maxwell Tensor in a Coulomb Fluid},
author = {B. Jancovici},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9912246},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, minor stylistic corrections made. To be published in J.Stat.Phys