Local conservation laws for the Maxwell-Vlasov and collisionless kinetic guiding-center theories
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 32 (3) , 1714-1721
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.32.1714
Abstract
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.Keywords
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