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Structural Instability of Reconnecting Current Layers

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The interrelation between the stability and the structure of reconnecting current layers governs their nonlinear evolution and determines a reconnection regime. In this chapter we study the structural instability of the reconnecting current layer, i.e. its evolutionarity.

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Somov, B.V. (2013). Structural Instability of Reconnecting Current Layers. In: Plasma Astrophysics, Part II. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 392. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4295-0_12

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