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Beltrami vector fields with polyhedral symmetries

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-12-29 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

A 3-dimensional vector field BB is said to be Beltrami vector field (force free-magnetic vector field in physics), if B×(×B)=0B\times(\nabla\times B)=0. Motivated by our investigations on projective an polynomial superflows, and as an important side result, in the first paper on this topic we constructed two unique Beltrami vector fields I\mathfrak{I} and Y\mathfrak{Y}, such that ×I=I\nabla\times\mathfrak{I}=\mathfrak{I}, ×Y=Y\nabla\times\mathfrak{Y}=\mathfrak{Y}, and that both have orientation-preserving icosahedral symmetry (group of order 6060). In the current paper we extend these results to the tetrahedral and octahedral cases, and (together with an icosahedral case) we calculate all simplest Beltrami fields with polyhedral symmetries arising from solutions to the Helmholtz equation of any order (the first aforementioned paper being an order 1 approach). The notion of Beltrami vector field, slightly relaxed, generalizes to any dimension. In this paper we also present 2-dimensional vector fields which have a dihedral symmetry D2d+1\mathbb{D}_{2d+1} of order 4d+24d+2. A much more detailed analysis is carried out in case d=1d=1. One of these fields is particularly exceptional since it is the only case in our investigations which arises from the order 00 approach to the Helmholtz equation, thus relating this flow to the ABCABC flow.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04218,
  title  = {Beltrami vector fields with polyhedral symmetries},
  author = {Giedrius Alkauskas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04218},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure

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