2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2025
Scattering Theory in Noncanonical Phase Space: A Drift-Kinetic Collision Operator for Weakly Collisional Plasmas
Naoki Sato, Philip J. Morrison
After developing a scattering theory for grazing collisions in general noncanonical phase spaces, we introduce a guiding center collision operator in five-dimensional phase space d…
gr-qc2024
A Collision Operator for Field-Mediated Interactions in General Relativistic Kinetic Theory
Naoki Sato
We develop a Hamiltonian framework for general relativistic kinetic theory on the cotangent bundle of a Lorentzian (pseudo-Riemannian) manifold. Starting from the geode…