Plane fronted parallel waves in a warm two-component plasma
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
A general system of equations is derived, using the 1+3 orthonormal tetrad formalism, describing the influence of a plane-fronted-parallel gravitational wave on a warm relativistic two-component plasma. We focus our attention on phenomena that are induced by terms that are higher order in the gravitational wave amplitude. In particular, it is shown that parametric excitations of ion-acoustic waves takes place, due to these higher order gravitational non-linearities. The implications of the results are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0108039,
title = {Plane fronted parallel waves in a warm two-component plasma},
author = {Gert Brodin and Mattias Marklund and Peter Dunsby},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0108039},
year = {2009}
}
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