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We examine numerically and analytically the problem of the relativistic velocity distribution in a 1-dim relativistic gas in thermal equilibrium. Our derivation is based on the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the…

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A manifestly covariant relativistic statistical mechanics of the system of $N$ indistinguishable events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered. The relativistic mass distribution for…

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Alternative definitions are given of basic concepts of generalized thermostatistics. In particular, generalizations of Shannon's entropy, of the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution, and of relative entropy are considered. Particular choices made…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

In this article we study a fully relativistic model of a two dimensional hard-disk gas. This model avoids the general problems associated with relativistic particle collisions and is therefore an ideal system to study relativistic effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Afshin Montakhab , Malihe Ghodrat , Mahmood Barati

We consider rigidly rotating states in thermal equilibrium on static spherically symmetric spacetimes. Using the Maxwell-Juttner equilibrium distribution function, onstructed as a solution of the relativistic Boltzmann equation, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Victor E. Ambrus , Ion I. Cotaescu

The particle distribution function that describes two interpenetrating plasma streams is re-investigated. It is shown how, based on the Maxwell-Boltzmann-J\"uttner distribution function that has been derived almost a century ago, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz

The Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (CMP) distribution is a natural two-parameter generalisation of the Poisson distribution which has received some attention in the statistics literature in recent years by offering flexible generalisations of some…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Fraser Daly , Robert E. Gaunt

Following the original approach of Maxwell-Boltzmann(MB), we derive a 4-velocity distribution function for the relativistic ideal gas. This distribution function perfectly reduces to original MB distribution in the non-relativistic limit.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Prasad Basu , Soumen Mondal

The low-temperature form of the equilibrium relativistic mass distribution is subject to the Galilean limit by taking $c\rightarrow \infty .$ In this limit the relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution passes to the usual nonrelativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

We propose a probability distribution for multivariate binary random variables. The probability distribution is expressed as principal minors of the parameter matrix, which is a matrix analogous to the inverse covariance matrix in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Takashi Arai

Maxwell's velocity distribution is known to be universally valid across systems and phases. Here we present a new and general derivation that uses the central limit theorem (CLT) of the probability theory. This essentially uses the idea…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Sangita Mondal , Biman Bagchi

A framework for relativistic thermodynamics and statistical physics is built by first exploiting the symmetries between energy and momentum in the derivation of the Boltzmann distribution, then using Einstein's energy-momentum relationship…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-09 Alexander Taskov

We develop a relativistic lattice Boltzmann (LB) model, providing a more accurate description of dissipative phenomena in relativistic hydrodynamics than previously available with existing LB schemes. The procedure applies to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Mendoza , I. Karlin , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

In this article, we proposed a new probability distribution named as power Maxwell distribution (PMaD). It is another extension of Maxwell distribution (MaD) which would lead more flexibility to analyze the data with non-monotone failure…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-04 Abhimanyu Singh Yadav , Hassan S. Bakouch , Sanjay Kumar Singh , Umesh Singh

We consider the relativistic statistical mechanics of an ensemble of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau .$ We generalize the approach of Yang and Yao, based on the Wigner distribution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

The Weibull distribution can be obtained using a power transformation from the standard exponential distribution. In this article, we will consider a symmetrized power transformation of a random variable with the standard normal…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Krzysztof Zajkowski

The Boltzmann distribution describes a single parameter (temperature) family of probability distributions over a state space; at any given temperature, the ratio of probabilities of two states depends on their difference in energy. The same…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Simone Cerreia-Vioglio , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Aldo Rustichini

We present an exact calculation of the power spectrum of the electromagnetic fluctuations in a relativistic equilibrium plasma described by Maxwell-J\"uttner distribution functions. We consider the cases of wave vectors parallel or normal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 C. Ruyer , L. Gremillet , D. Bénisti , G. Bonnaud

There is an intense debate in the recent literature about the correct generalization of Maxwell's velocity distribution in special relativity. The most frequently discussed candidate distributions include the Juettner function as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-08 David Cubero , Jesús Casado-Pascual , Jörn Dunkel , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

The various distribution functions can encompass the diverse characteristics of the magnetospheric plasma of surrounding neutron stars in both hot and cold environments; however, the Maxwell-J\"uttner distribution is so far widely used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-02 M. Mousavi , J. Benáček