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Kinetic theory for particle production

Josep Triginer, Winfried Zimdahl, Diego Pavon

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9602028

Abstract

Recently, the phenomenological description of cosmological particle production processes in terms of effective viscous pressures has attracted some attention. Using a simple creation rate model we discuss the question to what extent this approach is compatible with the kinetic theory of a relativistic gas. We find the effective viscous pressure approach to be consistent with this model for homogeneous spacetimes but not for inhomogeneous ones.

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