A higher-order-decay result for the dynamo equation with an application to the toroidal velocity theorem

作者：Kaiser Ralf^*

来源：Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics , 2015, 145(3): 535-557.

DOI：10.1017/S0308210513000449

In dynamo theory the distinction between decaying (in time) magnetic fields and those that do not is of crucial importance. Often decay is not manifest for the magnetic field itself but only for a single component or a scalar potential. Typically these auxiliary quantities satisfy evolution equations of the same type as the original induction equation. We prove here for these equations a theorem relating the decay of a solution to the decay of its higher derivatives. This result allows us to relate the decay of an auxiliary quantity to that of the magnetic field and, moreover, to relate integral decay to pointwise decay. As an application we strengthen the 'toroidal velocity theorem' in that we demonstrate pointwise decay of the magnetic field and electric current to zero under the conditions of this theorem.

• 出版日期2015-6