On the existence of canonical gyrokinetic variables for chaotic magnetic fields
Plasma Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
The gyrokinetic description of particle dynamics faces a basic difficulty when a special type of canonical variables is sought, i.e., the so-called \textit{gyrokinetic canonical variables}. These are defined in such a way that two of them are respectively identified with the gyrophase-angle, describing the fast particle gyration motion around magnetic field lines, and its canonically conjugate momentum. In this paper we intend to discuss the conditions of existence for these variables.
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@article{arxiv.0806.4819,
title = {On the existence of canonical gyrokinetic variables for chaotic magnetic fields},
author = {Piero Nicolini and Massimo Tessarotto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4819},
year = {2009}
}
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Contributed paper at RGD26 (Kyoto, Japan, July 2008)