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We study the statistical mechanics of the self-gravitating gas at thermal equilibrium with two kinds of particles. We start from the partition function in the canonical ensemble which we express as a functional integral over the densities…

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The density of states of self-gravitational system diverges when the particles are spread to infinity. Other problem based an inhomogeneous distribution of particles,which motivate the gravitational interaction. In this sense the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

One of the oldest problems in physics is that of calculating the motion of $N$ particles under a specified mutual force: the $N$-body problem. Much is known about this problem if the specified force is non-relativistic gravity, and…

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The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert

The results of our study of the motion of a three particle, self-gravitating system in general relativistic lineal gravity is presented for an arbitrary ratio of the particle masses. We derive a canonical expression for the Hamiltonian of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. J. Malecki , R. B. Mann

Self-gravitating system are non-equilibrium a priory. A new approach is proposed, which employs a non-equilibrium statistical operator into account inhomogeneous distribution of particles and temperature. The method involves the saddle -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 B. I. Lev

We study at the microscopic level the dynamics of a one-dimensional gravitationally interacting sticky gas. Initially, N identical particles of mass m with uncorrelated, randomly distributed velocities fill homogeneously a finite region of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Bonvin , Ph. A. Martin , J. Piasecki , X. Zotos

Relativistic effects in the thermodynamical properties of interacting particle systems are investigated within the framework of the relativistic direct interaction theory in various forms of dynamics. In the front form of relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Tretyak

We consider one-dimensional systems of self-gravitating sticky particles with random initial data and describe the process of aggregation in terms of the largest cluster size L_n at any fixed time prior to the critical time. The asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Lifshits , Zhan Shi

We develop a general formalism to determine the statistical equilibrium states of self-gravitating systems in general relativity and complete previous works on the subject. Our results are valid for an arbitrary form of entropy but, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-24 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study sums of independent and identically distributed random velocities in special relativity. We show that the resulting one-dimensional velocity distributions are not only stable under relativistic velocity addition but define a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Lucas G. B. de Souza , M. G. E. da Luz , E. P. Raposo , Evaldo M. F. Curado , G. M. Viswanathan

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

A relativistic self-gravitating equilibrium system with steady flow as well as spherical symmetry is discovered. The energy-momentum tensor contains the contribution of a current related to the flow and the metric tensor does an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Shuichi Yokoyama

The non-relativistic self-gravitating gas in thermal equilibrium in the presence of a positive cosmological constant Lambda (dark energy) is investigated. The dark energy introduces a force pushing outward all particles with strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. de Vega , J. A. Siebert

We study, using both theory and molecular dynamics simulations, the relaxation dynamics of a microcanonical two dimensional self-gravitating system. After a sufficiently large time, a gravitational cluster of N particles relaxes to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-25 Tarcísio N. Teles , Yan Levin , Renato Pakter , Felipe B. Rizzato

Self-gravitating systems have acquired growing interest in statistical mechanics, due to the peculiarities of the 1/r potential. Indeed, the usual approach of statistical mechanics cannot be applied to a system of many point particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Bottaccio , L. Pietronero , A. Amici , P. Moicchi , R. Capuzzo Dolcetta , M. Montuori

We discuss the statistical mechanics of a system of self-gravitating fermions in a space of dimension $D$. We plot the caloric curves of the self-gravitating Fermi gas giving the temperature as a function of energy and investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study, using both theory and simulations, a system of self-gravitating sheets. A new statistical mechanics theory - free of any adjustable parameters - is derived to quantitatively predict the final stationary state achieved by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-14 Tarcísio Nunes Teles , Yan Levin , Renato Pakter

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

We investigate the statistical distribution of Newtonian gravitational forces acting on a test particle embedded in an infinite, homogeneous, and uncorrelated random gas of point masses. Using order statistics, we derive the probability…

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