The layered discharge is still a mystery to physicists. Experimental data obtained by various investigators in recent years have contributed greatly to clarifying the question of the origin of strata. However, there is still no unified theory explaining all the bizarre forms that the stratified discharge takes under different discharge conditions. Our hypothesis of the connection of strata with the group of waves of fluctuations of the plasma potential has met with a number of objections printed in the discussion paper by V. V. Potemkin and M. E. Herzenstein. The objections are basically summarized as follows: 1) the wave group of high-frequency plasma oscillations is strongly attenuated in space and cannot give a stable stratum pattern over the length of the gas-discharge tube; 2) the wave packet is blurred and cannot form a stable stratum pattern in time; 3) high-frequency plasma oscillations are very weak, detected only in the cathode region of the discharge and not always.

The problem of bounded plasma oscillations was solved by D. Bohm and E. Gross and R. L. Stratonovich. Gross and R. L. Stratonovich. D. Bohm and E. Gross did not use the kinetic equation, but proceeded from the equation of motion of the electron. In addition, they assumed that the boundary conditions at both electrodes were the same. R. L. Stratonovich took the kinetic equation for electrons as a starting point, but the boundary conditions at the electrodes were also assumed to be the same. Therefore, he met an insurmountable difficulty in solving the kinetic equation.