The Mean-field Limit for a Regularized Vlasov-maxwell Dynamics
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Abstract. The present work establishes the mean-field limit of a N -particle system towards a regularized variant of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system, following the work of Braun-Hepp [Comm. in Math. Phys. 56 (1977), 101–113] and Dobrushin [Func. Anal. Appl. 13 (1979), 115–123] for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The main ingredients in the analysis of this system are (a) a kinetic formulation of the Maxwell equations in terms of a distribution of electromagnetic potential in the momentum variable, (b) a regularization procedure for which an analogue of the total energy — i.e. the kinetic energy of the particles plus the energy of the electromagnetic field — is conserved and (c) an analogue of Dobrushin’s stability estimate for the Monge-Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance between two solutions of the regularized Vlasov-Poisson dynamics adapted to retarded potentials.
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