For ideal reduced magnetohydrodynamics with periodic or vanishing-flux boundaries, the five quadratic cascade channels are , and . The perpendicular Elsässer variables, slow-wave amplitudes , and entropy fluctuation each obey an equation with divergence-free advection. Multiplying each equation by its own field and integrating makes both advection and propagation terms boundary fluxes, while the perpendicular pressure term vanishes by solenoidality. Each integral is therefore separately conserved. The two Alfvén cascades distort one another without exchanging their integrated invariants; the other three are passively cascaded by the Alfvénic motion without feedback at this order. This count concerns quadratic fluctuation-energy channels: an advected scalar also conserves arbitrary integrals , which are not extra independent quadratic modal channels.

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