In this letter we discuss two aspects of non-Gaussian statistics. In the first, we show that Maxwell’s first derivation of the stationary distribution function for a dilute gas can be extended in the context of Kaniadakis statistics. In the second, by investigating the stellar system, we study...

Conventional equilibrium statistical mechanics of bound gravitational systems is known to suffer from the serious difficulties that galaxies acquire unbounded radii, become infinitely massive, and evaporate away continuously. We point out that these troubles disappear automatically if we use the...

We extend the multiple time scales formalism originally introduced for the Fokker–Planck equation by Wycoff and Balazs (Physica A 146 (1987) 175) to the case of simple shear flow. The analysis is carried out for small values of the Stokes number, St, a dimensionless measure of the inertia of a...