Covariant Constitutive Relations, Landau Damping and Non-stationary Inhomogeneous Plasmas
arXiv:1003.2062
Abstract
Models of covariant linear electromagnetic constitutive relations are formulated that have wide applicability to the computation of susceptibility tensors for dispersive and inhomogeneous media. A perturbative framework is used to derive a linear constitutive relation for a globally neutral plasma enabling one to describe in this context a generalized Landau damping mechanism for non-stationary inhomogeneous plasma states.
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