Abstract

Franz Kahn's ideas on pulsar magnetospheres are exposed. Charged particle motion close and beyond the speed of light cylinder might explain hard gamma-ray radiation, and creates current density distributions producing radio frequency superluminal beaming, and shaping the structure of the magnetospheric electromagnetic field. A quasi-classical (stochastic) description of motion, related with the incoherent nature of gamma-ray radiation, replaces the classical (deterministic) description. Future studies involve vacuum electrodynamics.

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