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A relativistic electromagnetic soliton solution in the model of a one-dimensional, unbounded, cold, collisionless plasma is obtained without using the envelope approximation. The breaking of solitons with over-critical amplitudes is observed. The stability of undercritical solitons and the breaking of overcritical solitons are demonstrated by a particle-in-cell computer simulation.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 1, 33–38 (10 July 1998)
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Esirkepov, T.Z., Kamenets, F.F., Bulanov, S.V. et al. Low-frequency relativistic electromagnetic solitons in collisionless plasmas. Jetp Lett. 68, 36–41 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567817
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