Global Stability of 3D Compressible Non-Resistive MHD: Hidden Damping and Rational Background Fields

Abstract

We prove the global well-posedness and nonlinear stability of classical solutions to the three-dimensional compressible viscous, non-resistive MHD system on $\mathbb{T}^3$ near the equilibrium $(1,\mathbf{0},\mathbf{e}_3)$, for small $x_3$-symmetric perturbations and without any Diophantine condition on the background magnetic field. The central obstruction is the $x_3$-independent sector, in which the density and the magnetic field possess no dissipation, no damping, and no decay. We overcome it by exhibiting a hidden wave structure for the exact total pressure $\mathcal{D}=P(1+a)+B_3+\frac12|\mathbf{B}|^2$, the averaged pair $(\overline{\mathbf{u}},\overline{\mathcal{D}})$ obeys a closed system, and $\overline{\mathcal{D}}$ satisfies a strongly damped wave equation whose principal wave part propagates at the fast magnetosonic speed and whose non-parabolic branch damps at a rate that involves no gain of derivatives. This hidden damping substitutes for the missing magnetic dissipation, and simultaneously absorbs the magnetic pressure $\frac12\nabla|\mathbf{B}|^2$, the main obstruction created by compressibility. Together with a damped wave structure for the oscillatory sector and space-time weighted energy functionals with shifted time weights, this yields global existence, uniform stability, and explicit polynomial decay rates.