Group velocity and causality in standard relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics

Details Group velocity and causality in standard relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics Group velocity and causality in standard relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics

2011-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/1109.1856v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

28 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

Group velocity of electromagnetic waves in plasmas derived by standard relativistic resistive MHD (resistive RMHD) equations is superluminal. If we assume that the group velocity represents the propagation velocity of a signal, we have to worry about the causality problem. That is, some acausal phenomena may be induced, such that information transportation to the absolute past and spontaneous decrease in the entropy. Here, we tried to find the acausal phenomena using standard resistive RMHD numerical simulations in the suggested situation of the acausal phenomena. The calculation results showed that even in such situations no acausal effect happens. The numerical result with respect to the velocity limit of the information transportation is consistent with a linear theory of wave train propagation. Our results assure that we can use these equations without problems of acausal phenomena.

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