The effect of localization of the resistivity is studied in the coalescence of two magnetic flux bundles. The reconnection process is consistent with the Petschek configuration, and the reconnection rate E depends only weakly on the value η0 of the resistivity at the X-point, E∝1/|log η0|.
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