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The multiple scales perturbation theory is applied to a system of dispersive waves including plasma waves (ion-acoustic waves). Assuming the amplitudes of waves are slowly varying function of space and time, we find that long-time slow modulation of the complex amplitude can be described by the non-linear Schrödinger equation. This result agrees with that obtained by Shimizu and Ichikawa using the reductive perturbation theory, and agrees exactly with the nonrelativistic limit of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation obtained by Nejoh using the stretching method.
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El-Labany, S.K. Modulation of ion acoustic waves. Astrophys Space Sci 182, 241–247 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645004
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