WEAK PLASMA TURBULENCE THEORY AND SOME OTHER ITEMS OF PLASMA KINETICS

A new approach to a plasma kinetic description is discussed, the begin nings of which were published recently (Erofeev 1997 a). It is shown t hat calculations of the three-wave collision integral following this a pproach confirm the intensity and structure of the three-wave collisio n integral obtained in the traditional theory. The reported kinetics e xtend the area of applicability for the weak plasma turbulence theory: apart from waves it properly accounts for the effect of various other plasma nonlinear structures of the type of solitons, drift vortices, collapsing cavities and so on. Some directions for further studies are also discussed.