ASYMPTOTIC PERMANENT PROFILE OF THE ION-ACOUSTIC-WAVE DRIVEN BY THE LANGMUIR WAVE

We study the evolution of Langmuir waves coupled to the ion acoustic wave by means of the ponderomotive force in the Karpman limit (caviton equation). Using the spectral transform with singular dispersion relation, it is shown that the background noise (fluctuations in the ion density) is amplified and its time asymptotic behavior will be a static solution which is totally reflective for the Langmuir wave. Moreover, if the initial ion density contains a local depression, the asymptotic profile will contain a number of permanent localized density depressions (cavitons), static in the rest frame of the acoustic wave and entrained in its wake.