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D.Sokoloff,Egor Illarionov Moscow State University, Russia Alexander Smirnov, Peter Akhmetyev IZMIRAN,. Helicity Thinkshop on Solar Physics October 27 - 31 , 2013, Beijing, China After current helicity: higher topological invariants.
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D.Sokoloff,Egor Illarionov Moscow State University, Russia Alexander Smirnov, Peter Akhmetyev IZMIRAN, Helicity Thinkshop on Solar Physics October 27-31, 2013, Beijing, China After current helicity: higher topological invariants
What happens after an intensive time if new perspectives remain unclear (E.Much, Tag danach)
Bufferfly diagramm for current helicity as observed at Huairou
Why helicity data are instructive? • Current helicity – observable, clear topological meaning – linkage of current Mirror asymmetric • Magnetic helicity – topological invariant – linkage of magnetic lines Reconnections are slow – inviscid invariant of motion Can be in principle obtained from observations
Difficulties • Magnetic tube is a not very elaborated concept. Magnetic line covers often a 3D domain. • How to resolve: Arnold suggested a technique of short ways. • We do not know magnetic field inside vthe Sun (and in some other domains as well). • How to resolve: relative helicity. Linkages in respect to a given field.
How to use? • Magnetic field relaxation – is cxontrolled by magnetic helicty • Dynamo: dynamo generated mean field is helical. One have to conserve total helecity. • IMPORTANT: Magnetic helicity can not be transported along the spectrum: ab \sim aa/k >> vv for small k. Upper bound for helicity (no helicity without energy). Capacity of higher Levels is insufficient
Magnetic helicity densityis gauge non-invariantHow to resolve: A natural gaugefollows from the local homogeneity and isotropy and axial symmetryOne can calculate magnetic helicity from the current one
Magnetic helicity: algebraic sum of linkagesA cancellation of linkages can happen. Many other invariants are possible – say, sum of squares of linkages. Never vanishes if the field is linked. Polynomial invariants.
Let us deal for the time being with polynomial invariants only.A problem: density of the invariant+ of course, all other problems
Helicity patterns are similar in general to the sunspots pattern! Theory predicts a wrong time lag Unexpected areas of the «wrong» helicity sign Helicity butterfly diagrams: predicted, expected and observed. Very noisy as expected.Two observed diagrams are very similar! - effective suppression of the noise. .
Mutual helicity c a
Conclusions:1. Higher (polynomial) invariants are in principle measurable from available data.2. This very invariant is mirror-symmetric (not very interesting for dynamo).To be clarified:1.Can these invariants be transported along the spectrum?2. What about other invariants?