Local conservation laws for the Maxwell-Vlasov and collisionless kinetic guiding-center theories.
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With use of a recent variational formulation of the Maxwell-Vlasov and guiding-center theories [D. Pfirsch, Z. Naturforsch. A 39, 1 (1984)], the energy-momentum and angular momentum tensors for such theories are derived and the corresponding local conservation laws are proven. The energy-momentum tensor is shown to be symmetric in its spatial components while the angular momentum density is naturally antisymmetric.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review. A, General physics
دوره 32 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985