Covariant constitutive relations and relativistic inhomogeneous plasmas

DOI10.1063/1.3562929zbMATH Open1316.76114arXiv1103.0691OpenAlexW2040688766MaRDI QIDQ5263567FDOQ5263567

Authors: Jonathan Gratus, R. W. Tucker 

Publication date: 17 July 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notion of a two-point susceptibility kernel used to describe linear electromagnetic responses of dispersive continuous media in non-relativistic phenomena is generalized to accommodate the constraints required of a causal formulation in spacetimes with background gravitational fields. In particular the concepts of spatial material inhomogeneity and temporal non-stationarity are formulated within a fully covariant spacetime framework. This framework is illustrated by re-casting the Maxwell-Vlasov equations for a collisionless plasma in a form that exposes a 2-point electromagnetic susceptibility kernel in spacetime. This permits the establishment of a perturbative scheme for non-stationary inhomogeneous plasma configurations. Explicit formulae for the perturbed kernel are derived in both the presence and absence of gravitation using the general solution to the relativistic equations of motion of the plasma constituents. In the absence of gravitation this permits an analysis of collisionless damping in terms of a system of integral equations that reduce to standard Landau damping of Langmuir modes when the perturbation refers to a homogeneous stationary plasma configuration. It is concluded that constitutive modelling in terms of a 2-point susceptibility kernel in a covariant spacetime framework offers a natural extension of standard non-relativistic descriptions of simple media and that its use for describing linear responses of more general dispersive media has wide applicability in relativistic plasma modelling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0691

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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