Bifurcations of magnetic topology by the creation or annihilation of null points

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 56, Issue PART 2, 1996, Pages 507-530

  Priest, E R ^a   Lonie, D P ^a   Titov, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PHYSICS; TOPOLOGY;

NULL POINTS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0030370807     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377800019449     Document Type: Article

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