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1. ORDERINGS

The basic ordering is

 c /  1. (1)

In order to implement this ordering on a formal level, we introduce the ordering parameter   1 and estimate

2 and c / 1 . (2)

From this, it follows that the gyro-viscosity number (Ferraros F 1 ) is

c
  1. (3)

We furthermore assume that the fluctuations are high frequency, but long wavelength in the sense that

/ 1 and kva / 1/2 . (4)

Since = 2vt2 /va2 2 , the last condition is equivalent to

kvt / 1/2 . (5)

2. SIGN CONVENTIONS

g /Sz = 1 sgn(Sz ), sgn(Sz ) bz (6)

3. REAL AND IMAGINARY PARTS OF RESPONSE TENSOR

2
< + O(3/2 ) (7)
c2

i (4 q) k 2 vt2
 
i
= + 2 + O(3/2 ) (8)
c c 2bz c

4. COMPONENTS OF DISPERSION TENSOR

Accurate to O(1), the diagonal components of the dispersion tensor are

Dxx = 2 and Dyy = 2q2 . (9)

To the same order of accuracy, the off-diagonal components are

(4 q) k 2 vt2
 
Dxy = Dyx = i (10)
2 c bz

5. DISPERSION RELATION

 2
2 2 1 2 2 2
det D/ = + 2q (4 q)c bz 2k vt (11)
4c2
 2

According to this, the maximum growth rate

2 = 2q2 (12)

occurs at the wave number

(4 q)c bz
k2 = . (13)
2vt2

Note that the wavenumber is imaginary if bz = 1!