Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-737-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-737-2016
ANGEO Communicates
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07 Sep 2016
ANGEO Communicates |  | 07 Sep 2016

Anisotropic Jüttner (relativistic Boltzmann) distribution

Rudolf A. Treumann and Wolfgang Baumjohann

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The rigorous derivation of the Jüttner (covariant Boltzmann) distribution is provided for anisotropic pressure (or temperature) tensors. It was in similar form anticipated first by Gladd (1983). Its manifestly covariant version follows straightforwardly from its scalar property.