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How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World?

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This article outlines some of the problems, as well as some recent progress, in the implementation of Boltzmann’s probabilistic ideas in a world ruled by relativistic gravity and electromagnetism.

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    Michael K.-H. Kiessling

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  1. Fyma: Unité de physique theorique et de physique mathematique, Université catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

    Jean Bricmont

  2. Department of Theoretical Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34100, Trieste, Italy

    Giancarlo Ghirardi

  3. Mathematisches Institut, Universiät München, Theresienstrasse 39, 80333, München, Germany

    Detlef Dürr

  4. Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, 79104, Freiburg, Germany

    Francesco Petruccione

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Zamboni 38, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Maria Carla Galavotti

  6. Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Dodecanesco 33, 16146, Genova, Italy

    Nino Zanghi

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Kiessling, M.KH. (2001). How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World?. In: Bricmont, J., Ghirardi, G., Dürr, D., Petruccione, F., Galavotti, M.C., Zanghi, N. (eds) Chance in Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44966-3_6

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