Magnetic Confinement of the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System

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Zhiyuan Zhang, New York University

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We conjecture that for a plasma in a spatial domain with a boundary, the specular reflection effect of the boundary can be approximated by a large magnetic confinement field in the near-boundary region. We verify this conjecture for the 1.5D relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system (RVM) on a bounded domain \Omega = (0, 1) with an external confining magnetic field.