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Soroor Pouryazdan

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Relativistic transformation of temperature for exotic cosmological fluids

We study the relativistic transformation of temperature for effective cosmological fluids with negative pressure within a covariant thermodynamic framework. The Lorentz transformation of temperature is derived for barotropic fluids with $p=wρ$ and for the (generalized) Chaplygin gas with $p=-A/ρ^α$. For barotropic fluids with constant negative equation-of-state parameter, we show that negative pressure suppresses the growth of temperature under relativistic boosts. In contrast, the Chaplygin gas exhibits a qualitatively different behavior due to its density-dependent pressure, leading to a monotonic increase of the transformed temperature with velocity. The dependence of the relativistic temperature on the relative velocity and background energy density is illustrated through representative examples.

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Relativistic transformation of temperature revisited

The relativistic transformation of temperature has long remained controversial, with the classical laws of Planck-Einstein, Ott-Eddington-Moller and Landsberg yielding conflicting results. We reexamine this issue from a relativistic thermodynamic and statistical perspective, starting from the energy-momentum tensor of an isotropic system and defining the effective temperature Teff as that inferred by a moving observer from the transformed energy density. Analyses of a photon gas, a relativistic ideal gas and an electron gas show that Teff consistently increases with velocity, supporting the Ott-Eddington interpretation while depending on the system's equation of state. These results indicate that temperature is not a Lorentz-invariant scalar but an observer-dependent quantity. A consistent relativistic description emerges when temperature is related to the inverse-temperature four-vector beta, linking operational and invariant viewpoints within a unified thermodynamic framework.

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