It is argued that dispersive Alfvén solitary waves of the nonoscillatory type do not exist in one dimension. Previous calculations that claim existence have neglected the nonlinear ion polarization drift in the low-frequency limit. If the nonlinear ion polarization term is retained or if no low-frequency assumption is made, solitary wave solutions are not found.
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