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Kinetic Theory of Quantum Electrodynamic Plasma in a Strong Electromagnetic Field: II. The Covariant Mean-Field Approximation

V. G. Morozov^a, G. Röpke, A. Höll

^a Moscow State Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)

Abstract: A covariant kinetic equation for the matrix Wigner function is derived in the mean-field approximation from a general kinetic equation for the fermionic subsystem of a quantum electrodynamic plasma. We show that in the semiclassical limit, the equations for the components of the Wigner function can be transformed into closed kinetic equations for the Lorentz-invariant distribution functions of particles and antiparticles.

Keywords: relativistic kinetic theory, quantum electrodynamic plasma, covariant mean-field approximation.

Received: 11.01.2002

DOI: 10.4213/tmf354

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2002, 132:1, 1029–1042

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