Kinetic theory for particle production
arXiv:gr-qc/9602028 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/008
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.
19 pages, Latex file, to appear in Class.Quantum Grav