Conservative form of Boltzmann’s equation in general relativity

Masaru Shibata, Hiroki Nagakura, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, and Shoichi Yamada
Phys. Rev. D 89, 084073 – Published 24 April 2014
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  • INTRODUCTION
  • BOLTZMANN’S EQUATION
  • SUMMARY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • APPENDICES
    • References

    Abstract

    We derive a conservative form of Boltzmann’s equation in general relativity, which is concisely written. Several explicit forms of this equation are written for black-hole spacetime with several coordinate conditions in real spacetime and momentum-space coordinates.

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    • Received 19 February 2014

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.084073

    © 2014 American Physical Society

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    Masaru Shibata1, Hiroki Nagakura1, Yuichiro Sekiguchi1, and Shoichi Yamada2

    • 1Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
    • 2Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

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    Vol. 89, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2014

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