On the properties of multidimensional electrostatic oscillations of an electron plasma

Abstract

We consider the classical Cauchy problem for a system of equations describing 3D arbitrary electrostatic oscillations of the cold plasma and introduce an iteration procedure that allows estimating the blow-up time from below. This procedure is constructive provided one succeed to obtain a two-sided estimate of an additional quantity depending on the solution. We show that this is possible in the case of one and two dimensions, as well as for solutions with zero vorticity. For the particular case of two-dimensional initial data with the radial symmetry, refined sufficient conditions for destruction and preservation of smoothness in the first period of oscillations are obtained. Moreover, we give the example of estimating the blow-up time for the data for which results of numerics exist and discuss a roughness of our estimate.