Covariant Description of Dispersion in a Relativistic Thermal Electron Gas
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- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Australian Journal of Physics
- Vol. 35 (1) , 41-52
- https://doi.org/10.1071/ph820041
Abstract
A covariant and gauge-invariant theorY is used to describe dispersion in an isotropic plasma in terms of two invariant functions. These invariants are evaluated explicitly for a relativistic Maxwellian (Jtittner-Synge) distribution. The relations between forms for the dispersion of a relativistic Maxwellian distribution obtained by some earlier authors and the forms obtained here are demonstrated.Keywords
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