Autonomous Lipschitz Fast Dynamo on the Three-Torus
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Does there exist a single real-valued, divergence-free, time-independent Lipschitz velocity field , chosen independently of magnetic diffusivity, that is a fast dynamo for the kinematic induction equation on the flat three-torus? The author constructs such a field and constants such that, for every , the induction operator has an eigenvalue with . Thus every sufficiently small diffusivity admits a nonzero real divergence-free magnetic field with exact exponential growth. The velocity is Lipschitz but not , so this settles only the Lipschitz regularity variant; Arnold's smooth autonomous fast-dynamo problem on remains open.
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Lipschitz velocity; the smooth autonomous fast-dynamo conjecture on T^3 remains open.
Arnold's fast dynamo problem has organized mathematical MHD for decades, with a Springer monograph and a sustained literature, while staying invisible outside that community.
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