Some aspects of plasma dynamics with electron-inertia effects are
considered.
The behaviour of (i) one-dimensional steady current sheets, (ii) two-dimensional
steady reconnection models, (iii) one-dimensional current-sheet evolution,
(iv)
linear tearing-mode evolution and (v) nonlinear magnetic-island evolution
in
this regime is investigated. Stability of the two-dimensional plasma in
this
regime is then discussed, and necessary conditions for linear
stability in the Liapunov sense for steady states are then given.