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Recently, Israel and Kandrup (1984; Kandrup 1984 a,b,c,d) have formulated a new, manifestly covariant approach to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in classical general relativity. The object here is to indicate how that formalism may be used to construct a theory of ‘collisional’ stellar dynamics, valid for a collection of point mass stars in the limit that incoherent radiative effects may be neglected.
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Kandrup, H.E. (1985). Collisional Stellar Dynamics in General Relativity: An Overview. In: Goodman, J., Hut, P. (eds) Dynamics of Star Clusters. International Astronomical Union. Symposium, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5335-2_37
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