Bifurcations of the magnetic axis and the alternating-hyperbolic sawtooth
2020
We present a sawtooth model that explains observations where the central safety factor, $q_0$, stays well below one, which is irreconcilable with current models that predict a reset to $q_0=1$ after the crash. We identify the structure of the field around the magnetic axis with elements of the Lie group $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ and find a transition to an alternating-hyperbolic geometry when $q_0=2/3$. This transition is driven by an ideal MHD instability and leads to a chaotic magnetic field near the axis.
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