Stefano L. Paveri-Fontana, B. L. Willis, Paul F. Zweifel
Abstract
We show the possibility of collisional rest stabilization of a marginally linearly unstable Vlasov plasma by evaluating a simplified linearized Fokker-Planck collision term in the Vlasov equation, and studying the point spectrum.
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We show the possibility of collisional rest stabilization of a marginally linearly unstable Vlasov plasma by evaluating a simplified linearized Fokker-Planck collision term in the Vlasov equation, and studying the point spectrum.
Key concepts: Fokker–Planck equation, Vlasov equation, Physics, Spectrum (functional analysis), Operator (biology), Plasma, Mathematical physics, Statistical physics