Waves in strongly magnetized relativistic plasmas: generally covariant approach

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Aug;64(2 Pt 2):027401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.027401. Epub 2001 Jul 19.

Abstract

A dispersion relation for long waves in strongly magnetized multifluid plasma in a curved spacetime is derived in a covariant form. A generally covariant form for the ray equations is obtained. The results are applicable to ray propagation in relativistic plasmas in the vicinity of strongly gravitating (black holes) or rapidly rotating (pulsars) systems.