Changed paradigm of fast magnetic reconnection [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04409


Although magnetic reconnection takes place in three-dimensional space, reconnection theory has focused on two-dimensional models for more than sixty years. Well-posed three-dimensional mathematics associated with the theory of fluid mixing provides a predictive and compelling explanation for why fast magnetic reconnection is prevalent—exponentially large variations in the separations between magnetic field lines. The proofs have been simplified to remove any rational reason to maintain a focus on two dimensional models, which fail to represent the mathematical properties of three-dimensional space.

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Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.6069