Interacting dromions for electron acoustic waves

Analytical and numerical investigation of electron acoustic waves shows the existence of interacting dromions solutions. Using the asymptotic perturbation (AP) method, based on Fourier expansion and spatio-temporal rescaling, it is found that the amplitude slow modulation of Fourier modes is described by a system of nonlinear evolution equations. This system is C-integrable, i.e. can be linearized through an appropriate transformation of the dependent and independent variables. We demonstrate the existence of dromion solutions, which propagate with their own group velocity and during a collision maintain their shape, the only change being a phase shift. Numerical results are used to check the validity of the AP method.