Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-12-569-2005
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-12-569-2005
09 Jun 2005
09 Jun 2005

On the nonexistence of large amplitude stationary solitary waves in symmetric unmagnetized pair plasmas

F. Verheest

Abstract. Waves in pair plasmas have a fundamentally different dispersion due to the equal charge-to-mass ratios between negative and positive charges. In view of possible applications e.g. to electron-positron and fullerene pair plasmas, it is shown that there are no stationary large amplitude nonlinear structures in symmetric unmagnetized pair plasmas.