
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mason, DP 
T1  - The Vlasov?Maxwell Operators in Self-adjoint Form
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1973
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
SP  - 301
EP  - 314
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH730301 
N2  - A systematic method for obtaining the scalar product with respect to which a given Vlasov-Maxwell operator is self-adjoint is illustrated by considering the operator introduced by Shure (1964) to describe one-dimensional longitudinal oscillations in a bounded plasma. By separation of variables the problem is reduced to the solution of a singular integral equation for the weight function of the scalar product. The solution of this equation is not explicit but is in the form of a simple linear Fredholm integral equation of the second kind which is easily solved. The method should be applicable to similar operators in this field. 
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