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For the two-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer system, it has been shown that the non-degenerate tangential magnetic field leads to the well-posedness in Sobolev spaces and high Reynolds number limits without any monotonicity condition on the velocity field in our previous works. This paper aims to show that sufficient degeneracy in the tangential magnetic field at a non-degenerate critical point of the tangential velocity field of shear flow indeed yields instability as for the classical Prandtl equations without magnetic field studied by Gérard-Varet and Dormy (2010). This partially shows the necessity of the non-degeneracy in the tangential magnetic field for the stability of the boundary layer of MHD in 2D at least in Sobolev spaces.
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Cheng-Jie Liu’s research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11743009), Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 18YF1411700) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Grant No. WF220441906). Feng **e’s research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11571231). Tong Yang’s research was supported by the General Research Fund of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong (Grant No. 103713).
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Liu, CJ., **e, F. & Yang, T. A note on the ill-posedness of shear flow for the MHD boundary layer equations. Sci. China Math. 61, 2065–2078 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-017-9306-0
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