Nonlinear instability of periodic BGK waves for Vlasov‐Poisson system |
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Authors: | Zhiwu Lin |
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Abstract: | We investigate the nonlinear instability of periodic Bernstein‐Greene‐Kruskal (BGK) waves. Starting from an exponentially growing mode to the linearized equation, we proved nonlinear instability in the L1‐norm of the electric field. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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