Existence of three-dimensional toroidal MHD equilibria with nonconstant pressure

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 717-764

  Bruno, Oscar P ^a   Laurence, Peter ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199607)49:7<717::AID-CPA3>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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