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A basis of Casimirs in 3D magnetohydrodynamics

Mathematical Physics 2019-01-15 v1 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We prove that any regular Casimir in 3D magnetohydrodynamics is a function of the magnetic helicity and cross-helicity. In other words, these two helicities are the only independent regular integral invariants of the coadjoint action of the MHD group SDiff(M)X(M)\text{SDiff}(M)\ltimes\mathfrak X^*(M), which is the semidirect product of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms and the dual space of its Lie algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1901.04404,
  title  = {A basis of Casimirs in 3D magnetohydrodynamics},
  author = {Boris Khesin and Daniel Peralta-Salas and Cheng Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04404},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages