Magnetically created instability in a collisionless plasma

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 975-1009

  Guo, Yan ^a   Strauss, Walter A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic equilibrium; Collisionless plasma; Electromagnetic instability; Electrostatic stability; Nonlinear instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034363471     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-7824(00)01186-7     Document Type: Article

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