In Lecture 34, we presented a heuristic discussion of the tearing mode. The tearing mode is centered about x = 0, where F(x) = k · B = 0. Note that this does not require that B(0) = 0; it only requires that k be perpendicular to B there. Thus the tearing mode (and other resistive modes) can occur even when there is a large component of B in the z-direction.
And so it goes.
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Schnack, D.D. (2009). Resistive Instabilities: Closing Remarks. In: Lectures in Magnetohydrodynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 780. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00688-3_35
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