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Non-extensive statistics and the stellar polytrope index

R. Silva, J. S. Alcaniz

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0402245

Abstract

We use physical constrains imposed from the H-Theorem and from the negative nature of the heat capacity of self-gravitating thermodynamically isolated systems to investigate some possible limits on the stellar polytrope index n within the domain of a classical non-extensive kinetic theory.

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