Random half-order differential correlation functions (Q1025368)

As in the work by \textit{I. E. Alber} [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 363, 525--546 (1978; Zbl 0396.76012)], the authors assume that the Davey-Stewartson equations [\textit{A. Davey} and \textit{K. Stewartson}, Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 338, 101--110 (1974; Zbl 0282.76008)] (the two-dimensional version of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation of Hasimoto and Ono [J. Phys. Soc. Japan 33, No. 3, 805--811 (1972)] governing the development of complex wave amplitudes remain valid when the amplitudes are a random function in the two-dimensional spatial space. Thus, they may use the transport equation by Alber (1978) for the ensemble-averaged two-point correlation function of these amplitudes allowing for slow variations. The authors find instability conditions for the two-point correlation function solutions to a one-dimensional transport equation in the case of an exponential inhomogeneous disturbance with a random complex amplitude determined, in contrast to Alber's work, by half-order differentials of a spectrum. Main examples of spectra as the inverse finite-depth well one, the Lorentz spectrum, the Gaussian spectrum, and the Pierson-Moskowitz one are considered, and for all cases exact conditions of instability are derived.