On the convexity of equilibrium plasma configurations

DOI10.1002/mma.1670030130zbMath0452.35033MaRDI QIDQ3898861

Andrew Acker

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.1670030130

zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problem; plasma confinement; convexity of level curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

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