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Plasmas and dust are a couple of the ubiquitous elements of the Universe. The nonlinear dust-acoustic-wave propagation in a space or laboratory un-magnetized dusty plasma is hereby considered, which is described by a spherical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By virtue of computerized symbolic computation, we obtain the analytically-expressed spherical nebulons and an auto-Bäcklund transformation for the electrostatic potential in such a plasma. With figures, we discuss the features of the nebulon structures, and propose some (3+1)-dimensional, possibly-observable nebulonic effects for the future space/laboratory plasma experiments.
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Tian, B., Gao, YT. Spherical nebulons and Bäcklund transformation for a space or laboratory un-magnetized dusty plasma with symbolic computation. Eur. Phys. J. D 33, 59–65 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00036-6
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