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Oblique nonlinear Alfvén waves in strongly magnetized beam plasmas. Part 2. Soliton solutions and integrability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
Oblique propagation of MHD waves in warm multi-species plasmas with anisotropic pressures and different equilibrium drifts is described by a modified vector derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, if charge separation in Poisson's equation and the displacement current in Ampère's law are properly taken into account. This modified equation cannot be reduced to the standard derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and hence requires a new approach to solitary-wave solutions, integrability and related problems. The new equation is shown to be integrable by the use of the prolongation method, and by finding a sufficient number of conservation laws, and possesses bright and dark soliton solutions, besides possible periodic solutions.
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