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Knotty invariants: structure and evolution of magnetized fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

Ilan Roth
Ilan Roth*
Affiliation:
Space Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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It is conjectured that magnetic configurations may be characterized by the embedded invariants which are extracted from their topological textures. Hence, experimentally observed magnetic structures can be classified by the invariants of the elementary building blocks of the 3-D structures - prime knots. These unique invariants may describe the magnetic configurations in ion drop-outs in solar impulsive events, in photospheric flux ropes carried into the interplanetary medium by the solar wind, and can affect the decay rates for complex magnetic configurations.

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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S294: Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos and Magnetic Activity , August 2012 , pp. 369 - 370
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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