Local well-posedness of the incompressible current-vortex sheet problems

Abstract

We prove the local well-posedness of the incompressible current-vortex sheet problems in standard Sobolev spaces under the surface tension or the Syrovatskij condition, which shows that both capillary forces and large tangential magnetic fields can stabilize the motion of current-vortex sheets. Furthermore, under the Syrovatskij condition, the vanishing surface tension limit is established for the motion of current-vortex sheets. These results hold without assuming the interface separating the two plasmas being a graph.