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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Plasmas. 2018 Mar 1;25(3):032101. doi: 10.1063/1.5016853

TABLE I.

Comparison of Different agyrotropy Measures

AG Q Dng Ae
Rotation Invariant I3 I2 I2 I2
Unique Gyrotropy Defined Y Y Y N
Field aligned measure independant of P Y N N Y
Uniform Scaling Y Na N Y
Trace EDR in Harris reconnection Y Y Y Y
Trace EDR in Force-free reconnection Y Y Y N
a

The scaling depends on P when the tensor is field aligned.