Eulerian action principles for linearized reduced dynamical equations

New Eulerian action principles for the linearized gyrokinetic Maxwell–Vlasov equations and the linearized kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic (kinetic-MHD) equations are presented. The variational fields for the linearized gyrokinetic Vlasov–Maxwell equations are the perturbed electromagnetic potentials (φ1,A1) and the gyroangle-independent gyrocenter (gy) function Sgy, while the variational fields for the linearized kinetic-MHD equations are the ideal MHD fluid displacement ξ and the gyroangle-independent drift-kinetic (dk) function Sdk (defined as the drift-kinetic limit of Sgy). According to the Lie-transform approach to Vlasov perturbation theory, Sgy generates first-order perturbations in the gyrocenter distribution F1≡{Sgy, F0}gc, where F1 satisfies the linearized gyrokinetic Vlasov equation and {, }gc denotes the unperturbed guiding-center (gc) Poisson bracket. Previous quadratic variational forms were constructed ad hoc from the linearized equations, and required the linearized gyrokinetic (or drift-kinetic) Vlasov equation to be solved a priori (e.g., by integration along an unperturbed guiding-center orbit) through the use of the normal-mode and ballooning-mode representations. The presented action principles ignore these requirements and, thus, apply to more general perturbations.