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    Lyapunov spectra in fast dynamo Ricci flows of negative sectional curvature

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    Previously Chicone, Latushkin and Montgomery-Smith [\textbf{Comm. Math. Phys. \textbf{173},(1995)}] have investigated the spectrum of the dynamo operator for an ideally conducting fluid. More recently, Tang and Boozer [{\textbf{Phys. Plasmas (2000)}}], have investigated the anisotropies in magnetic field dynamo evolution, from finite-time, Lyapunov exponents, giving rise to a Riemann metric tensor, in the Alfven twist in magnetic flux tubes (MFTs). In this paper one investigate the role of Perelman Ricci flows constraints in twisted magnetic flux tubes, where the Lyapunov eigenvalue spectra for the Ricci tensor associated with the Ricci flow equation in MFTs leads to a finite-time Lyapunov exponential stretching along the toroidal direction of the tube and a contraction along the radial direction of the tube. It is shown that in the case of MFTs, the sectional Ricci curvature of the flow, is negative as happens in geodesic flows of Anosov type. Ricci flows constraints in MFTs substitute the Thiffeault and Boozer [\textbf{Chaos}(2001)] have vanishing of Riemann curvature constraint on the Lyapunov exponential stretching of chaotic flows. Gauss curvature of the twisted MFT is also computed and the contraints on a negative Gauss curvature are obtained.Comment: Department of theoretical physics-UERJ-Brasi

    Exponential stretching in filaments as fast dynamos in Euclidean and Riemannian 3D spaces

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    A new antidynamo theorem for non-stretched twisted magnetic flux tube dynamo is obtained. Though Riemannian curvature cannot be neglected since one considers curved magnetic flux tube axis, the stretch can be neglect since one only considers the limit of thin magnetic flux tubes. The theorem states that marginal or slow dynamos along curved (folded), torsioned (twisted) and non-stretched flux tubes endowed with diffusionless plasma flows, if a constraint is imposed on the relation between poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields in the helical dynamo case. A formula for the stretch of flux tubes is derived. From this formula one shows that the Riemann flux tube is stretched by an interaction between the plasma flow vorticity and torsion, in accordance with our physical intuition. Marginal diffusionless dynamos are shown to exist obtained in the case of flux tube dynamos exponential stretching. Thus slow dynamos can be obtaining on the flux tube under stretching. Filamentary dynamos anti-dynamos are also considered. As flux tubes possess a magnetic axis torsioned filament, it can also be considered as thegerm of a fast dynamo in flux tubes Riemannian curved space. It is shown that for non-stretched filaments only untwist and unfold filaments can provide dynamo action in diffusive case. A condition for exponential stretching and fast dynamos in filaments is given. These results are actually in agreement with Vishik argument that fast dynamo cannot be obtained in non-stretched flows. Actually the flux tube result is the converse of Vishik's lemma

    A Riemannian geometrical method to classify tearing instabilities in plasmas

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    Riemannian geometrical tools, such as Ricci collineations and Killing symmetries, so often used in Einstein general theory of gravitation are here applied to plasma physics to build magnetic surfaces from Einstein plasma metrics used in tokamak devices. It is shown that the Killing symmetries are constrains the Einstein magnetic surfaces while the Killing vectors are built in terms of the displacement of the toroidal surface. The pressure is computed by applying these constraints to the pressure equations in tokamaks. A method, based on the sign of the only nontrivial constant Riemann curvature component, is suggested to classify tearing instability. Throughout the computations two approximations are considered: The first is the small toroidality and the other is the small displacement of the magnetic surfaces as Einstein spaces.Comment: Depto de Fisica de Teorica-if-uerj-rio-Brasi

    Primordial magnetic fields of non-minimal photon-torsion axial coupling origin

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    Dynamo action is shown to be induced from homogeneous non-minimal photon-torsion axial coupling in the quantum electrodynamics (QED) framework in Riemann flat spacetime contortion decays. The geometrical optics in Riemann-Cartan spacetime is considering and a plane wave expansion of the electromagnetic vector potential is considered leading to a set of the equations for the ray congruence. Since we are interested mainly on the torsion effects in this first report we just consider the Riemann-flat case composed of the Minkowskian spacetime with torsion. It is also shown that in torsionic de Sitter background the vacuum polarisation does alter the propagation of individual photons, an effect which is absent in Riemannian spaces. It is shown that the cosmological torsion background inhomogeneities induce Lorentz violation and massive photon modes in this QED. Magnetic dynamos in this torsioned spacetime electrodynamics are simpler obtained in Fourier space than the cosmic ones, previously obtained by Bassett et al Phys Rev D, in Friedmann universe. By deriving plasma dispersion for linear electrodynamics in Riemann Cartan spacetime, dynamo action seems to be possible for plasma frequencies in some polarizations. The important cosmic magnetic field problem of breaking conformal flatness is naturally solved here since the photon torsion coupling breaks conformal flatness.Comment: depto de fisica teorica, if uerj, state rio de janeiro universit

    Plasma torus dynamos versus laminar plasma dynamos

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    Earlier Wang et al [Phys Plasmas (2002)] have estimated a growth rate for the magnetic field of γ=0.055{\gamma}=0.055 and flow ionization velocity of 51km/s51{km}/{s} in a laminar plasma slow dynamo mode for aspect ratio of r0/L≈0.6{r_{0}}/L\approx{0.6}, where r0r_{0} is the internal straight cylinder radius, and L is the length scale of the plasma cylinder. In this paper, fast dynamo modes in curved Riemannian heliotron are shown to be excited on a plasma flow yielding a growth rate of γ=0.318{\gamma}=0.318 for an aspect ratio of r0/L≈0.16{r_{0}}/L\approx{0.16}. It is interesting to note that the first growth rate was obtained in the Wang et al slow dynamo, where the magnetic Reynolds number of Rem=210Re_{m}=210, while in the second one considered in this paper one uses the limit of Rem→∞Re_{m}\to{\infty}. These growth rates γ{\gamma} are computed by applying the fast dynamo limit limη→0γ(η)>0lim_{{\eta}\to{0}}{\gamma}(\eta)>0. This limit is used in the self-induced equation, without the need to solve these equations to investigate the fast dynamo action of the flow. In this sense the fast dynamo seems to be excited by the elongation of the plasma device as suggested by Wang group. The Frenet curvature of the tube is given by κ0≈0.5m−1{\kappa}_{0}\approx{0.5 m^{-1}}. It is suggested that the small Perm torus could be twisted [Dobler et al, Phys Rev E (2003)] in order to enhance even more the fast dynamo effect. By considering the stability of the plasma torus one obtains a value for the fast dynamo growth rate as high as γ=1.712{\gamma}=1.712 from a general expression γ=0.16ω{\gamma}=0.16{\omega} and a toroidal oscillation of a chaotic flow of ω=2π6{\omega}=\frac{2{\pi}}{6}.Comment: UER

    Lagrangean stability of slow dynamos in compact 3D Riemannian manifolds

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    Modifications on a recently introduced fast dynamo operator by Chiconne et al [Comm Math Phys 173, 379 (1995)] in compact 3D Riemannian manifolds allows us to shown that slow dynamos are Lagrangean stable, in the sense that the sectional curvature of the Riemann manifold vanishes. The stability of the holonomic filament in this manifold will depend upon the sign of the second derivative of the pressure along the filament and in the non-holonomic case, to the normal pressure of the filament. Lagrangean instability is also investigated in this case and again an dynamo operator can be defined in this case. Negative curvature (Anosov flows) dynamos are also discussed in their stability aspects.Comment: Departamento de Fisica Teorica-IF-UERJ-Brasi

    Geodesic plasma flows instabilities of Riemann twisted solar loops

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    Riemann and sectional curvatures of magnetic twisted flux tubes in Riemannian manifold are computed to investigate the stability of the plasma astrophysical tubes. The geodesic equations are used to show that in the case of thick magnetic tubes, the curvature of planar (Frenet torsion-free) tubes have the effect ct of damping the flow speed along the tube. Stability of geodesic flows in the Riemannian twisted thin tubes (almost filaments), against constant radial perturbations is investigated by using the method of negative sectional curvature for unstable flows. No special form of the flow like Beltrami flows is admitted, and the proof is general for the case of thin magnetic flux tubes. In the magnetic equilibrium state, the twist of the tube is shown to display also a damping effect on the toroidal velocity of the plasma flow. It is found that for positive perturbations and angular speed of the flow, instability is achieved, since the sectional Ricci curvature of the magnetic twisted tube metric is negative. Solar flare production may appear from these geometrical instabilities of the twisted solar loops.Comment: Departamento de Fisica Teorica-IF-UERJ-Rio-Brasi

    Riemannian and filamentary geometries..

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    Riemannian and filamentary geometries are used to investigate the stretched filamentary dynamos against solar data in solar corona

    Slow dynamos in Lorentz tori Anti-de Sitter spacetime embedded in Riemann 2D-space

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    Earlier Chicone, Latushkin and Montgomery-Smith [Comm Math Phys (1997)] have shown that a fast dynamo in compact two-dimensional manifold can be supported as long as its Riemannian curvature be negative. Recently Klebanov and Maldacena [Phys Today (2008)] showed that a similar flat spacetime embedding of a 2D negative Riemannian hyperbolic embedding in 2+1-D space-time, is achieved by a coordinate transformation. This embedding is used here to obtain a flat spacetime embedding of a slow dynamo in Riemannian 2D compact manifold of negative constant curvature. In is shown that a slow dynamo appears in anti-de Sitter space (AdS) Lorentz tori. This is in agreement with Bassett et al [Phys Rev D (2001)] cosmic dynamo where suppression of resonance by universe expansion slow dynamo action in comparison to preheating phases. Other example of flat embeddings, which keeps some resamblance with AdS slow dynamo, is given by the embedding of Moebius strip [Shukurov, Stepanov, Sokoloff, PRE (2008)] in the laboratory

    Dynamo action at recombination epoch of open Friedmann universe spatial sections

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    Chicone et al [Comm Math Phys (1997)] investigated existence of fast dynamos by analyzing the spectrum kinematic magnetic dynamo. In real non-degenerate branch of the spectrum, the kinematic dynamo operator lies on a compact Riemannian 2D space of constant negative curvature. Here, generalization of Marklund and Clarkson [MNRAS (2005)], general relativistic GR-MHD dynamo equation to include mean-field dynamos is obtained. In the absence of kinetic helicity, adiabatic constant γ=1/2\gamma={1/2} and gravitational colapse of negative Riemann curvature of spatial sections enhance dynamo effect δBB=2.6×10−1\frac{{\delta}B}{B}=2.6\times 10^{-1}. Critical time where linear dynamo effects breaks down de to curvature. At recombination time, COBE temperature anisotropies, implies that magnetic field growth rate is λ≈10−9yr−1{\lambda}{\approx{10}^{-9}yr^{-1}}. This places a bound on curvature till the recombination magnetic field is amplified to present value of B0=10−9GB_{0}=10^{-9}G, by dynamo action. At present epoch, negative curvature becomes constant and the Chicone et al result is shown to be valid in cosmology. Since negative curvature is non-constant, Hilbert theorem which forbiddes negative constant curvature surfaces embeddeding in R3\textbf{R}^{3} is bypassed.Comment: DFT uerj Brasi
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