| dc.description |
Oblique propagation of magnetohydrodynamic waves in warm plasmas 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 its possible integrability and related properties need to be established afresh. Indeed, the new equation is shown to be integrable by the existence of a bi-Hamiltonian structure, which yields the recursion operator needed to generate an infinite sequence of conserved densities. Some of these have been found explicitly by symbolic computations based on the symmetry properties of the new equation. |
