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Polarization Effects in Higher-order Guiding-center Lagrangian Dynamics

Plasma Physics 2024-01-09 v2

Abstract

The extended guiding-center Lagrangian equations of motion are derived by Lie-transform method under the assumption of time-dependent and inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields that satisfy the standard guiding-center orderings for space-time scales. Polarization effects are introduced into the Lagrangian dynamics by the inclusion of the polarization drift velocity in the guiding-center velocity and the appearance of finite-Larmor-radius corrections in the guiding-center Hamiltonian and guiding-center Poisson bracket.

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@article{arxiv.2308.04240,
  title  = {Polarization Effects in Higher-order Guiding-center Lagrangian Dynamics},
  author = {Alain J. Brizard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04240},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2306.04726

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