Cubic saturation of quasistatic magnetoconvection ($a^2=\frac{8(R-R_c)}{s^2+Q{\pi }^2}+O((R-R_c{)}^2)$)

The primary roll and temperature modes force only a horizontally uniform temperature mode proportional to $\sin (2\pi z)$ at quadratic order. Its amplitude is $c=-\alpha ab/(8\pi )$. Its feedback on the primary temperature mode saturates magnetoconvection, giving the displayed positive squared amplitude above threshold. Thus a simple roll onset is a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation for every $Q\ge 0$. The three-mode Fourier truncation and full perturbation calculation agree through the cubic solvability condition because all forced quadratic modes are retained; this is not an assertion that the truncation gives an exact finite-amplitude PDE solution.

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