The influence of an external magnetic field on cold plasma oscillations

Abstract

For a system of equations describing one-dimensional nonlinear oscillations in a magnetoactive plasma, we study the effect of a constant magnetic field on the breaking of oscillations. For the nonrelativistic case, a criterion for the formation of a finite-dimensional singularity is obtained in terms of the initial data. It is shown that the enhancement of the magnetic field basically leads to an expansion of the class of initial data providing the global smoothness of the solution. The nature of the singularities of the solutions is illustrated by numerical examples.