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Relativistic generalization of Brownian Motion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-10-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The relativistic generalization of the Brownian motion is discussed. We show that the transformation property of the noise term is determined by requiring for the equilibrium distribution function to be Lorentz invariant, such as the J\"uttner distribution function. It is shown that this requirement generates an entanglement between the force term and the noise so that the noise itself should not be a covariant quantity.

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@article{arxiv.0710.1904,
  title  = {Relativistic generalization of Brownian Motion},
  author = {T. Koide and T. Kodama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1904},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, no figures, elsart.cls