The Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky perturbation method is applied to systems of nonlinear dispersive waves including plasma waves such as ion-acoustic, magneto-acoustic, and electron plasma waves. It is found that long time slow modulation of the complex wave amplitude can be described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a very wide class of nonlinear dispersive waves.
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