PREPARED FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, UNDER CONTRACT DE-AC02-76CH03073 PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY PPPL-3521 PPPL-3521 UC-70 Resistive Instabilities in Hall Current Plasma Discharge by Andrei A. Litvak and Nathaniel J. Fisch November 2000