
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Melrose, DB 
T1  - Covariant Description of Dispersion in a Relativistic Thermal Electron Gas
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1982
VL  - 35
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 52
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH820041 
N2  - 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. 
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