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Anisotropic and inhomogeneous solutions of the Einstein-Boltzmann equations for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes

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It is shown how the techniques that yield anisotropic and inhomogeneous solutions of the Einstein-Liouville equations for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetimes can be used to demonstrate the existence of anisotropic and inhomogeneous FRW solutions of the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, thereby providing a possible relativistic kinetic theory basis (and consequently a more self-consistent basis) for tilting imperfect fluid FRW cosmological models (based on a set of phenomenological laws of relativistic thermodynamics).

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    Present address: Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Coley, A., O'Neill, E. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous solutions of the Einstein-Boltzmann equations for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. Astrophys Space Sci 186, 205–210 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02111196

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