Correlation patterns for an electromagnetic field interacting with a relativistic plasma

Balescu Radu, Paiva-Veretennicoff I. Correlation patterns for an electromagnetic field interacting with a relativistic plasma. In: Bulletin de la Classe des sciences, tome 57, 1971. pp. 457-476

KINETIC EQUATION FOR A PLASMA IN A STRONG HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD

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Kinetic equation of a relativistic plasma in the weak coupling approximation

The correlation pattern formalism is used to derive a kinetic equation for a relativistic plasma and radiation. Landau and Thomson scattering are taken into account to compute the collision operator for the homogeneous weakly coupled case. An H-theorem is proved. The corresponding linearized kinetic equation is a two dimensional matrix equation, the collision operator of which is hermitian. Its spectrum is shown to be definite negative and its collisional invariants are computed.Balescu Radu, Paiva-Veretennicoff I., Brenig L. Kinetic equation of a relativistic plasma in the weak coupling approximation. In: Bulletin de la Classe des sciences, tome 59, 1973. pp. 812-841