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Stability of Chandrasekhar's nonlinear force-free fields

arXiv:2206.00899

Abstract

Chandrasekhar's nonlinear force-free field, discovered in 1956, is a rare example of a nonlinear force-free field describing a large coherent structure of axisymmetric magnetic field lines with swirls in the presence of Alfvén waves. We demonstrate that his traveling wave solution is orbitally stable with the energy norm in ideal MHD regarding weak ideal limits of axisymmetric Leray-Hopf solutions.

85 pages, new remark 1.3 and Appendix B