Waves in a lossy Goubau line

We consider a homogeneous Goubau line (GL) with a lossy cover. We analyze the dispersion equation for symmetric waves with respect to the problem parameters, find radially symmetric complex waves, and examine their behavior. We show that longitudinal wavenumbers of complex waves are regular perturbations of the propagation constants of eigenwaves of lossless GL, weakly depend om the imaginary part of permittivity of the cover, and that attenuation in GL is low at higher losses.