Propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves through a magnetized plasma in curved space-time

This is the second of two papers on the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves through an inhomogeneous, non-stationary plasma in curved space-time. By applying the general two-scale W.K.B. method developed in part 1 to the basic wave equation, derived also in that paper, the dispersion relation, the rays, the polarization states and the transport laws for the amplitudes of these waves are observed. In a magnetized plasma the polarization state changes differently for ordinary and extraordinary waves, according to the angle between the wave-normal and the background magnetic field, and under specified approximation conditions the direction of polarization of linearly polarized waves undergoes a generalized Faraday rotation. (author)