Twisting in One Dimensional Periodic Vlasov-Poisson System

Abstract

We prove that twisting and filamentation occur near a family of stable steady states for one dimensional periodic Vlasov-Poisson system, describing the electron dynamics under a fixed ion background. More precisely, we establish the growth in time of the L1 norm of the gradient for the electron distribution function and the corresponding flow map in the phase space. To support this result, we prove existence results of stable steady states for a class of ion densities on the torus.