Kinetic theory of hydromagnetic turbulence. I. Formal results for parallel propagation

Formal weak turbulence kinetic equations for magnetized collisionless plasmas are derived. The kinetic theory of plasma turbulence found in the literature is largely applicable for unmagnetized plasmas, and most of the available literature only deal with electrostatic Langmuir turbulence problem. However, real plasmas in nature and laboratory are usually immersed in magnetic fields. At present there is no practical kinetic theory for turbulence in magnetized plasmas. The present paper and a companion article P. H. Yoon and T.-M. Fang, Phys. Plasmas 14, 102303 (2007) constitute a first step in the formulation of general kinetic theory for magnetized plasmas. For the sake of simplicity, it is assumed that turbulent fluctuations predominantly propagate along the direction of ambient magnetic field vector, and that the characteristic frequency associated with the fluctuations is much lower than the electron gyrofrequency, i.e., hydromagnetic turbulence. The effects of spontaneous thermal fluctuation and spatial inhomogeneity are also ignored.