(1) Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné, URA 168 du CNRS, UNSA, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cédex 02, France;(2) CERMICS, INRIA, BP 93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
Abstract:
Ionization and recombination in a plasma are considered. They give rise to a system of kinetic equations with cubic source terms. An existence theorem is proved for such a system.