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This is the second of a series of papers on the special relativistic classical statistical mechanics. Employing the general theory developed in the first paper we rigorously derive the relativistic Vlasov, Landau and Boltzmann equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chushun Tian

In 1911, J\"uttner proposed the generalization, for a relativistic gas, of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of velocities. Here we want to discuss, among others, J\"uttner probability density function (PDF). Both the velocity space and,…

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The fluctuations in the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background are described by a hierarchy of Boltzmann equations. In its integral form, this Boltzmann hierarchy can be converted from the usual Fourier-space base…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Paulo H. F. Reimberg , L. Raul Abramo

Here the probability density of relativistic particles coordinates, satisfying the formal conditions of the quantum mechanics and the special relativity, is determined (under textbooks view, such density does not exist). It is specified for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 V. F. Krotov

Probability distribution theory helps in studying the impact of various dimensions in life while the Mittag-Leffler function and bicomplex are used in electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and signal theory. Considering the importance of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Dharmendra Kumar Singh , Chinmay Sharma

This paper introduces an extension to the normal distribution through the polar method to capture bimodality and asymmetry, which are often observed characteristics of empirical data. The later two features are entirely controlled by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Masoud Faridi , Majid Jafari Khaledi

The J\"uttner (covariant Boltzmann) distribution is provided for anisotropic pressure (or temperature) tensors. Its manifestly covariant form follows from its scalar property.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Statistical modeling of multivariate and spatial extreme events has attracted broad attention in various areas of science. Max-stable distributions and processes are the natural class of models for this purpose, and many parametric families…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-09 Clement Dombry , Sebastian Engelke , Marco Oesting

We investigate the transformation of the distribution function in the relativistic case, a problem of interest in plasma when particles with high (relativistic) velocities come into play as for instance in radiation belt physics, in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

We show that the relativistic energy-momentum relation can emerge as an effective ensemble-averaged structure from a multiplicative Hamiltonian when fluctuations of an auxiliary parameter are treated using maximum entropy inference. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Sikarin Yoo-Kong

A new term describing interactions between charge and potentials may be added to the right hand side of the Einstein equations. In the proposed term an additional tensor has been introduced containing a charge density, analogous to the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jacob Biemond

Coincidence scattering of polarized electrons from nuclei with polarization transfer to outgoing nucleons is studied within the context of relativistic mean field theory. Effects introduced by the dynamical enhancement of the lower…

A multicanonical formalism is applied to the problem of statistical equilibrium in a complex system with a hierarchy of dynamical structures. At the small scales the system is in quasi-equilibrium and follows a Maxwell-Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-29 G. L. Vasconcelos , D. S. P. Salazar

This paper investigates the combinatorics that gives rise to the Boltzmann probability distribution. Despite being one of the most important distributions in physics and other fields of science, the mathematics of the underlying model of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Bart Jacobs

In this communication, the derivation of the Boltzmann-Gibbs and the Maxwellian distributions is presented from a geometrical point of view under the hypothesis of equiprobability. It is shown that both distributions can be obtained by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-20 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Jaime Sanudo , Xavier Calbet

We present some product representations for random variables with the Linnik, Mittag-Leffler and Weibull distributions and establish the relationship between the mixing distributions in these representations. The main result is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Victor Korolev , Alexander Zeifman

The thermodynamic maximum principle for the Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon (BGS) entropy is reconsidered by combining elements from group and measure theory. Our analysis starts by noting that the BGS entropy is a special case of relative entropy.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

The isotropic Maxwell-Boltzmann (M-B) velocity distribution is the accepted standard for a gas at thermal equilibrium, with the Doppler width considered to deliver a very precise measurement of the temperature. Nevertheless, the physical…

Selberg and Morris integral probability distributions are long conjectured to be distributions of the total mass of the Bacry-Muzy Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos measures with non-random logarithmic potentials on the unit interval and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Dmitry Ostrovsky

The special relativity laws emerge as one-parameter (light speed) generalizations of the corresponding laws of classical physics. These generalizations, imposed by the Lorentz transformations, affect both the definition of the various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Kaniadakis