Reduction and approximation in guiding-center dynamics

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/46/465501MaRDI QIDQ3548413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Ghendrih, R. Vilela Mendes, Ricardo Lima

Publication date 12 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702234

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Systems with slow and fast motions for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K70) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: The gyrokinetics formulation of plasmas in strong magnetic fields aims at the elimination of the angle associated with the Larmor rotation of charged particles around the magnetic field lines. In a perturbative treatment or as a time-averaging procedure, gyrokinetics is in general an approximation to the true dynamics. Here we discuss the conditions under which gyrokinetics is either an approximation or an exact operation in the framework of reduction of dynamical systems with symmetry

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