Effects of rotation on radial heat flow in a gas

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Abstract
A controversy which has appeared recently in the literature surrounding the topic of this paper has so far left open the question of whether the Boltzmann equation is invariant under rotation of the reference frame, and speculations regarding exotic consequences of the Coriolis acceleration have yielded physically paradoxical results. In this paper it is shown that by consistently using generalized canonical dynamical variables appropriate to a rotating reference frame, the exotic paradoxes dissolve, and a proof emerges that the physical consequences of the Boltzmann equation are invariant with respect to the rotation of the frame of reference.

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