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# On a charge interacting with a plasma of unbounded mass

• We consider a positive Vlasov-Helmholtz plasma in interaction with a positive point charge in $\R^2$ and we prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for this system without any assumption on the decay at infinity of the spatial density.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 82D10, 35Q99; Secondary: 35L60.

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