In natural units, the equilibrium phase-space distribution function iswhere the minus sign gives the Bose-Einstein distribution for bosons and the plus sign gives the Fermi-Dirac distribution for fermions.
Summing over the internal states, the number density, energy density, and isotropic pressure areandThe factor in the kinetic pressure of an isotropic gas is the angular average of one diagonal component of the momentum flux.
For an ultrarelativistic particle, . Setting and writing the three-dimensional momentum integral radially givesThe standard Bose integrals yieldFor fermions, the corresponding integrals differ by the familiar factorsThus the number density scales as , while the energy density and pressure scale as .
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