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Modulational instability of elliptically polarized transverse electromagnetic wave in a cold plasma

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Modulational instability of an elliptically polarized transverse wave in a cold plasma is investigated by the use of Whitham's method of averaged Lagrangian including relativistic corrections. Instability condition and amplitude dependent frequency shift are derived.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    K. P. Das & S. Sihi

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The authors wish to thank the referee for his valuable suggestion to improve the paper. The award of a Junior Research Fellowship to one of the authors (S.Sihi) by CSIR, India is gratefully acknowledged.

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Das, K.P., Sihi, S. Modulational instability of elliptically polarized transverse electromagnetic wave in a cold plasma. Czech J Phys 27, 1368–1377 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01588766

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