GENERAL RELATIVISTIC PLASMA PHYSICS
Primordial cosmological plasmas as well as plasmas around blackholes are severely influenced by warped spacetime due to general relativistic effects. The former is primarily in time and the latter primarily in space. In order to make sufficient concrete progress in analyzing these plasma phenomena, we developed a theoretical framework of plasma physics based on Thorne and McDonalds' "3 + 1 formalism." (Publication #130, 1989). Application of this technique to the black hole atmosphere has been carried out, finding (i) existence of steady matter flows even within the 3 Schwarzschild radii (Rs) (which has been thought to support no such thing before), (ii) a series of new topological equilibria of plasmas with or without magnetic fields near the blackhole (Tarkenton Ph.D. thesis 1996, supervised by Tajima). A possible interpretation has been advanced to explain gamma ray bursts using the stored matter within 3 Rs and its sudden in fall by instability due to the enhanced plasma viscosity (Publication #227). High frequency electromagnetic waves in the blackhole atmosphere have been also analyzed. We found that the general relativistic warping through the (lapse function) can lead to a cut off, resonance, and transmission and mode-conversion of such waves solely due to the general relativistic effect. We also pointed out in connection to the laser wakefield accelerator the immense accelerating gradient in this can manifest strong general relativistic effects such as laser spectral shift reminiscent of the Sachs-Wolfe effect on cosmology.