A Krein space related perturbation theory for MHD α2-dynamos and resonant unfolding of diabolical points

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/32/S08zbMATH Open1100.47062arXivmath-ph/0602013MaRDI QIDQ5485504FDOQ5485504

Authors: Uwe Günther, Oleg Kirillov 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The spectrum of the spherically symmetric alpha-2 dynamo is studied in the case of idealized boundary conditions. Starting from the exact analytical solutions of models with constant alpha-profiles a perturbation theory and a Galerkin technique are developed in a Krein-space approach. With the help of these tools a very pronounced alpha-resonance pattern is found in the deformations of the spectral mesh as well as in the unfolding of the diabolical points located at the nodes of this mesh. Non-oscillatory as well as oscillatory dynamo regimes are obtained. A Fourier component based estimation technique is developed for obtaining the critical alpha-profiles at which the eigenvalues enter the right spectral half-plane with non-vanishing imaginary components (at which overcritical oscillatory dynamo regimes form). Finally, Frechet derivative (gradient) based methods are developed, suitable for further numerical investigations of Krein-space related setups like MHD alpha-2-dynamos or models of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0602013

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryGalerkin technique\(\alpha ^{2}\)-dynamodiabolical pointsFréchet derivative methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local complex singularities (32S05) Local spectral properties of linear operators (47A11) Linear operators on spaces with an indefinite metric (47B50) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Spaces with indefinite inner product (Kre?n spaces, Pontryagin spaces, etc.) (46C20)

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