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The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the presence of large velocities, relativistic corrections are meaningful, and when symmetry of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. We consider the case that the plasma…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Jörg Weber

We look for the global in time solution of the Cauchy problem corresponding to the asymptotically flat spherically symmetric EVM system with small initial data. Using an estimate, we also prove that if solution of the system stated above…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Noundjeu

The Radiative Vlasov-Maxwell equations model the radiative kinetics of collisionless relativistic plasma. In them the Lorentz force is modified by the addition of radiation reaction forces. The radiation forces produce damping of particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Peter Constantin , Hezekiah Grayer

We prove global existence of the $3D$ relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system for a class of arbitrary large regular initial data with spherical symmetry, in which the initial distribution function of particles is assumed to decay fast but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Xuecheng Wang

It is argued that the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of the kinetic theory of plasma approximately describe a relativistic system of $N$ charged point particles interacting with the electromagnetic Maxwell fields in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , Yves Elskens

The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. We consider the case that the plasma…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Jörg Weber

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell system as a Cauchy initial value problem taking the electric and magnetic fields as independent variables. Maxwell's equations in curved spacetimes are derived in detail using a 3+1 formalism and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-29 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Carlos Degollado , Marcelo Salgado

Results on the behaviour in the past time direction of cosmological models with collisionless matter and a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are presented. It is shown that under the assumption of non-positive $\Lambda$ and spherical or plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sophonie Blaise Tchapnda

We study spherically symmetric solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system in the context of algebras of generalized functions. This allows to model highly concentrated initial configurations and provides a consistent setting for studying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-07 Irina Kmit , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

In this article we address some issues related to the initial value problems for a rotating shallow water hyperbolic system of equations and the diffusive regularization of this system. For initial data close to the solution at rest, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Nabil Bedjaoui , Vivien Desveaux , Olivier Goubet , Alice Masset

While a fully relativistic collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system a good approximation in the non-relativistic limit is given by the Vlasov-Poisson system. We modify the Vlasov-Poisson system so that damping due to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Sebastian Bauer

The particle density distribution emerging from the solution of the Vlasov equation for relativistic, non-interacting particles with spherically symmetric initial conditions is shown to exhibit a shell-like structure for late fixed times in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Greiner , Dirk-Hermann Rischke

Solutions of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equations for the electric field radiated by a time varying point charge in a three-dimensional, unbounded, spatially homogeneous plasma with a uniform background magnetic field and a uniform…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John J. Podesta

For more than half a century, most of the plasma scientists have encountered a violation of the conservation laws of charge, momentum, and energy whenever they have numerically solve the first-principle equations of kinetic plasmas, such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Takashi Shiroto , Naofumi Ohnishi , Yasuhiko Sentoku

Full self-consistent stationary Vlasov-Maxwell solutions of magnetically confined plasmas are built for systems with cylindrical symmetries. The stationary solutions are thermodynamic equilibrium solutions. These are obtained by computing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Aurélien Cordonnier , Xavier Leoncini , Guilhem Dif-Pradalier , Xavier Garbet

Classical solutions of the spherically symmetric Nordstr\"{o}m-Vlasov system are shown to exist globally in time. The main motivation for investigating the mathematical properties of the Nordstr\"{o}m-Vlasov system is its relation to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Håkan Andréasson , Simone Calogero , Gerhard Rein

In a previous paper two of the authors (G. R. and A. D. R.) showed that there exist global, classical solutions of the spherically symmetric Vlasov-Einstein system for small initial data. The present paper continues this investigation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall , Jack Schaeffer

Using the iterative Scheme we prove the local existence and uniqueness of solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system with small initial data. We prove a continuation criterion to global in-time solutions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Noundjeu , N. Noutchegueme

Fluctuations of electric and magnetic fields in the collisionless plasma are found as a solution of the initial value linearized problem. The plasma initial state is on average stationary and homogeneous. When the state is stable, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski