Thermodynamics of a two-dimensional unbounded self-gravitating system
Abstract
The thermodynamics of a two-dimensional self-gravitating system occupying the whole plane is considered in the mean-field approximation. First, it is proven that, if the number N of particles and the total energy E are imposed as the only external constraints, then the entropy admits the least upper bound S+(N,E)=2E/N+N ln(eπ2) (in appropriate units). Moreover, there does exist a unique state of maximum entropy, which is characterized by a Maxwellian distribution function with a temperature T=N/2 independent of E. Next, it is shown that, if the total angular momentum J is imposed as a further constraint, the largest possible value of the entropy does not change, and there is no admissible state of maximum entropy, but in the case J=0. Finally, some inequalities satisfied by a class of so-called H functions and related generalized entropies are given.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- November 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.60.5185
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvE..60.5185A
- Keywords:
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- 05.20.Gg;
- 05.20.Dd;
- 95.30.Sf;
- Classical ensemble theory;
- Kinetic theory;
- Relativity and gravitation