A general mutual helicity formula

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 2003, 2000, Pages 2771-2779

  Cantarella, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohomology; Helicity; Linking number; Mutual helicity; Plasma physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013076330     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0639     Document Type: Article

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