1999/12/31 by B. Jancovici
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech
published as J.Stat.Phys. 99 (2000) 1281 · 17 pages, minor stylistic corrections made. To be published in J.Stat.Phys
arxiv created 2000/02/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The pressure in a classical Coulomb fluid at equilibrium is obtained from the Maxwell tensor at some point inside the fluid, by a suitable statistical average. For fluids in an Euclidean space, this is a fresh look on known results. But, for fluids in a curved space, a case which is of some interest, the unambiguous results from the Maxwell tensor approach have not been obtained by other methods.