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Hauptverfasser: Peralta-Salas, Daniel, Perrella, David, Pfefferlé, David
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21243
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author Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Perrella, David
Pfefferlé, David
author_facet Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Perrella, David
Pfefferlé, David
contents We construct families of rotationally symmetric toroidal domains in $\mathbb R^3$ for which the eigenfields associated to the first (positive) Ampèrian curl eigenvalue are symmetric, and others for which no first eigenfield is symmetric. This implies, in particular, that minimizers of the celebrated Woltjer's variational principle do not need to inherit the rotational symmetry of the domain. This disproves the folk wisdom that the eigenfields corresponding to the lowest curl eigenvalue must be symmetric if the domain is.
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spellingShingle Asymmetry of curl eigenfields solving Woltjer's variational problem
Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Perrella, David
Pfefferlé, David
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
35P15, 58E30, 53Z05, 53C80, 35Q31, 76W05 (Primary), 37C10 (Secondary)
We construct families of rotationally symmetric toroidal domains in $\mathbb R^3$ for which the eigenfields associated to the first (positive) Ampèrian curl eigenvalue are symmetric, and others for which no first eigenfield is symmetric. This implies, in particular, that minimizers of the celebrated Woltjer's variational principle do not need to inherit the rotational symmetry of the domain. This disproves the folk wisdom that the eigenfields corresponding to the lowest curl eigenvalue must be symmetric if the domain is.
title Asymmetry of curl eigenfields solving Woltjer's variational problem
topic Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
35P15, 58E30, 53Z05, 53C80, 35Q31, 76W05 (Primary), 37C10 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21243