Multidimensional behavior of an electrostatic ion wave in a magnetized plasma

Abstract

Three-dimensional nonlinear evolution equations of an electrostatic ion wave in the short wave region in a magnetized plasma are derived by means of the reductive perturbation method. It is shown that, in some cases, the evolution equations reduce to the Davey–Stewartson 1 equations, which are known to admit solutions with localized structure in higher dimension. It is also shown that there is a possibility of collapse of localized structure in the case of wave propagation parallel to a magnetic field.