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Stability of hot tachyon gas

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-08-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider a tachyon gas that obeys Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. The sound speed is always subluminal and it tends to the limiting minimum value cs=1/2c_s=1/\sqrt{2} in non-relativistic gas (at low temperature), decreasing monotonously with the growth of temperature and attaining ultra-relativistic limit cs=1/c_s=1/% \sqrt{3} at high temperature. The hot tachyon gas always satisfies the causality.

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@article{arxiv.1108.4752,
  title  = {Stability of hot tachyon gas},
  author = {Ernst Trojan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4752},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures