Bottaccio, Maurizio; Pietronero, Luciano; Amici, Alessandro - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 305 (2002) 1, pp. 247-252
Self-gravitating systems have acquired growing interest in statistical mechanics, due to the peculiarities of the 1/r potential. Indeed, the usual approach of statistical mechanics cannot be applied to a system of many point particles interacting with the Newtonian potential, because of (i) the...