In the aforementioned paper we obtained an equation for non-linear Alfvén waves in a finite-β plasma, and investigated envelope soliton solutions thereof. The purpose of this note is to point out an error in the derivation of the soliton envelopes, and present corrected expressions for these solitons.

The error arises from our assumption of translational invariance of both the envelope and phase of an envelope soliton expressed in equations (16) and (17). Rather, the phase is related to the amplitude bywhere y ≡ x — VEt is a comoving co-ordinate, and all other quantities are defined in the above paper.