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Modern models of nonlinear dynamo saturation in celestial bodies (specifically, on the Sun) are largely based on the consideration of the balance of magnetic helicity. This physical variable has also a topological meaning: it is associated with the linking coefficient of magnetic tubes. In addition to magnetic helicity, magnetohydrodynamics has a number of topological integrals of motion (the so-called higher helicity moments). We have compared these invariants with magnetic helicity properties and concluded that they can hardly serve as nonlinear constraints on dynamo action.
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Original Russian Text © D.D. Sokolov, E.A. Illarionov, P.M. Akhmet’ev, 2017, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 123–128.
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Sokolov, D.D., Illarionov, E.A. & Akhmet’ev, P.M. Higher helicity invariants and solar dynamo. Geomagn. Aeron. 57, 113–118 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793217010133
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