Abstract: | It is presumed that a north-southern asymmetry of a solid-body rotation of large spots, depending on even and odd solar activity cycles (Gigolashvili and Khutsishvili 1 1989, 1990) may possibly be explained by the asymmetry of the appearance of large structures with strong magnetic fields in the corresponding hemispheres. Spectral analysis of the observational data shows the presence of cyclic variations of differential rotation of large- and middle-sized spots. Variations of differential rotation of small spots are either absent or overlapped by noise. It is also supposed that the discovered and most frequently realized component of the spectrum of solar differential rotation variations — a four-years periodicity — may be either a real phenomenon or the result of overlapping of multiple quasi bi-annual variations. |