Instability of Periodic Bgk Waves
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We investigate the stability of periodic Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) waves. It is proved that any such wave is linearly unstable under some perturbation of twice the period. A new method is developed to find a growing mode.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001