New variational principle for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5768-5771

  Brizard, Alain J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CHARGED PARTICLES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ENERGY MOMENTUM CONSERVATION LAW; EULERIAN VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE; NOETHER METHOD; VLASOV DISTRIBUTION; VLASOV-MAXWELL EQUATION;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 17544378345     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5768     Document Type: Article

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