Incompressible magnetic displacement energy identity

ID: incompressible-magnetic-displacement-energy-identity

For a static ideal magnetohydrodynamics equilibrium in fixed gravity, let and . Frozen flux gives and continuity gives . Multiplying the linear momentum equation by the conjugate displacement and integrating by parts gives the displayed identity when surface terms vanish. The two magnetic cross terms cancel; the remaining magnetic equilibrium derivative combines with the mass density-gradient force to give the two Hessian matrices. Real symmetric Hessian matrices and the nonnegative magnetic tension term make real.

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