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Sampling from the Maxwell-Juttner Distribution

Authors: Luc Devroye

The Maxwell-Ju ̈ttner distribution pertains to the speeds of particles in a hypothetical gas of relativistic particles. We consider the generalized form of this law in Rd, and show how to generate a random variate from this distribution. In particular, one can sample the radius of the d-dimensional random vector in expected time uniformly bounded over all dimensions d and shape parameters (temperatures).

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