Abstract
Abstract The attempt made by Einstein and Stern to deduce Planck's law by classical reasoning, invoking only the zero-point background radiation, is reconsidered for a sea of electromagnetic waves, the interactions necessary for thermalization being provided by non-linearities in the wave equations rather than by, as in their case, charged particles. It is shown that, when the Cabot-Putterman ansatz is invoked, the resulting Wave-Boltzmann equation possesses Planck's law as steady-state solution.
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