Stability of Nonlinear Wave of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Type Equation

For ion-acoustic waves in a plasma with non-isothermal electrons,the MKP equation is its governing equation.The instability of a soliton solution of MKP equation to two-dimensional long-wavelength perturbations is investigated up to the third order.It indicates that the one-soliton solution of MKP equation is unstable if v = -1wheras it is stable if v = 1 until the third order approximation has been considered.