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Phase Transition in a Self--Gravitating Planar Gas

Elcio Abdalla, M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9803161

Abstract

We consider a gas of Newtonian self-gravitating particles in two-dimensional space, finding a phase transition, with a high temperature homogeneous phase and a low temperature clumped one. We argue that the system is described in terms of a gas with fractal behaviour.

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