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Hybrid resonance of Maxwell's equations in slab geometry

Plasma Physics 2019-08-16 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Hybrid resonance is a physical mechanism for the heating of a magnetic plasma. In our context hybrid resonance is a solution of the time harmonic Maxwell's equations with smooth coefficients, where the dielectric tensor is a non diagonal hermitian matrix. The main part of this work is dedicated to the construction and analysis of a mathematical solution of the hybrid resonance with the limit absorption principle. We prove that the limit solution is singular: it is constituted of a Dirac mass at the origin plus a principle value and a smooth square integrable function. The formula obtained for the plasma heating is directly related to the singularity.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0779,
  title  = {Hybrid resonance of Maxwell's equations in slab geometry},
  author = {Bruno Després and Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard and Ricardo Weder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0779},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This published version has been edited to improve the presentation of the results