Relaxed States of a Magnetized Plasma with Minimum Dissipation

. A solution of thisequation is accomplished using the analytic continuation of the Chandrasekhar-Kendall eigenfunctionsin the complex domain. The new features of this theory show (i) that a single fluid can relaxto an MHD equilibrium which can support a pressure gradient even without a long-term couplingbetween mechanical flow and magnetic field, and (ii) field reversal in states that are not force free.[S0031-9007(98)07284-6]