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Plasma physics

result that minimizing magnetic energy at fixed magnetic helicity gives a linear force-free field.

In plasma physics, Woltjer theorem refers to result that minimizing magnetic energy at fixed magnetic helicity gives a linear force-free field. This meaning comes from Woltjer (1958) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Woltjer, L. (1958). A Theorem on Force-free Magnetic Fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 44(6), 489-491. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.44.6.489

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