A necessary and sufficient condition is derived for a magnetic differential equation B·▿r = 0 to have a single-valued solution r, where B is the field of a magnetohydrostatic equilibrium state or, more generally, and field with a system of toroidal magnetic surfaces.
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William A. Newcomb (1959) studied this question.
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