Causality of the linearized relativistic Boltzmann equationp
- 23 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (26) , 2831-2834
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2831
Abstract
The evolution of a distribution function according to the linearized relativistic Boltzmann equation is shown to be causal for a wide class of scattering cross sections.Keywords
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