Global existence and stability of viscous Alfvén waves in the large-box limit for MHD systems

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Main Authors: Xu, Li, Zhang, Jiahui
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Zhang, Jiahui
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Zhang, Jiahui
contents This paper rigorously analyzes how the {\it large box limit} fundamentally alters the global existence theory and dynamics behavior of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with small viscosity/resistivity $(0<μ\ll 1)$ on periodic domains $Q_L=[-L,L]^3$, in presence of a strong background magnetic field. While the existence of global solutions (viscous Alfvén waves) on the whole space $\R^3$ was previously established in \cite{He-Xu-Yu}, such results cannot be expected for general finite periodic domains. We demonstrate that global solutions do exist on the torus $Q_L=[-L,L]^3$ precisely when the domain exceeds a size $L_μ>e^{\f1μ}$, providing the first quantitative characterization of the transition to infinite-domain-like behavior.
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spellingShingle Global existence and stability of viscous Alfvén waves in the large-box limit for MHD systems
Xu, Li
Zhang, Jiahui
Analysis of PDEs
This paper rigorously analyzes how the {\it large box limit} fundamentally alters the global existence theory and dynamics behavior of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with small viscosity/resistivity $(0<μ\ll 1)$ on periodic domains $Q_L=[-L,L]^3$, in presence of a strong background magnetic field. While the existence of global solutions (viscous Alfvén waves) on the whole space $\R^3$ was previously established in \cite{He-Xu-Yu}, such results cannot be expected for general finite periodic domains. We demonstrate that global solutions do exist on the torus $Q_L=[-L,L]^3$ precisely when the domain exceeds a size $L_μ>e^{\f1μ}$, providing the first quantitative characterization of the transition to infinite-domain-like behavior.
title Global existence and stability of viscous Alfvén waves in the large-box limit for MHD systems
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20086