Anisotropic weak whistler wave turbulence in electron magnetohydrodynamics

A weak wave turbulence theory is given for electron magnetohydrodynamics in the presence of a strong and uniform external magnetic field. Using helicity decomposition, the wave kinetic equations for energy and magnetic helicity are derived at the level of three-wave interactions between whistler waves. It is shown that nonlinear interactions of whistler waves transfer energy and magnetic helicity mainly in the direction perpendicular to the external magnetic field. The anisotropic turbulence thus generated has exact stationary power law solutions which scale as k(perpendicular to)(-5/2)k(parallel to)(-1/2) for the energy spectrum and k(perpendicular to)(-7/2)k(parallel to)(-1/2) for the magnetic helicity spectrum. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.