Seminar series
Date
Mon, 17 Jan 2011
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Jonathan Ben-Artzi
Organisation
Brown University
We consider the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations which
describes the evolution of a collisionless plasma. We show that under
rather general conditions, one can test for linear instability by
checking the spectral properties of Schrodinger-type operators that
act only on the spatial variable, not the full phase space. This
extends previous results that show linear and nonlinear stability and
instability in more restrictive settings.