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Electrostatic solitons in multispecies electron-positron plasmas

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In this paper, the Sagdeev potential is used to integrate the equations of electron-positron plasmas with equal hot and cool components of both species, where the hot components are isothermal Boltzmann distributed, and the cool components are modelled by adiabatic fluids.
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Acoustic solitons are investigated in electron-positron plasmas containing equal hot and cool components of both species. The hot components are isothermal Boltzmann distributed, the cool constituents are modelled by adiabatic fluids. The equations are integrated exactly in terms of a Sagdeev potential. Solitons are shown to be possible, but no double layers, due to the symmetry in the model. Bearing in mind the constraints imposed by the Boltzmann assumption, small amplitude solitons only are found. Such findings are relevant for different kinds of astrophysical plasmas, as well as for other types of similar acoustic solitons.

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Head-on collision of ion acoustic solitary waves in an electron-positron-ion plasma with superthermal electrons

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Existence of bulk acoustic modes in pair plasmas

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Nonlinear acoustic waves in nonthermal plasmas with negative and positive dust

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Nonlinear excitations in electron-positron-ion plasmas in accretion disks of active galactic nuclei

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