We study the zero viscosity-resistivity limit for the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in a periodic domain in the framework of Gevrey class. We first prove that there exists an interval of time, independent of the viscosity coefficient and the resistivity coefficient, for the solutions to the viscous incompressible MHD equations. Then, based on these uniform estimates, we show that the solutions of the viscous incompressible MHD equations converge to that of the ideal incompressible MHD equations as the viscosity and resistivity coefficients go to zero. Moreover, the convergence rate is also given. 4279 4280 FUCAI LI AND ZHIPENG ZHANG phenomena governed by the viscous MHD equations. Thus, it is very interesting to consider the vanishing viscosity-resistivity limit of the viscous incompressible MHD equations.When we take H ν,µ = 0 in the system (1), it is reduced into the classical incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and many results are available on the inviscid limit to it in R n or torus, for instance, see [7,8,9,22,34] and the references cited therein. Specially, Cheng, Li, and Xu [7] studied the vanishing viscosity limit of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in Gevrey class in a torus and got the convergence rate. However, in the presence of a physical boundary, according to the classical Prandtl boundary layers theory [37,38], the inviscid limit of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a domain with non-slip boundary condition is still an outstanding open problem up to now and only a few results for some specific cases available. Sammartino and Caflisch first investigated the Prandtl theory and the vanishing viscosity limit problem in the analytic setting in [40,41]. In 2014, Maekawa [33] studied the same problems for 2D case under the assumption that the initial vorticity of outer Euler flows should vanish in a neighborhood of boundary. Additional, the results in [40,41] were generalized to Gevrey class in [16], see also [44]. Xin and Zhang [48] proved the global existence of weak solutions to Prandtl equations for the favorable pressure. Alexandre et al. [1] and Masmoudi and Wong [35] independently verified the local well-posedness for the Prandtl equations in Sobolev space by the direct energy method. Gerard-Varet and Dormy [17] showed that the ill-posedness in Sobolev space for the linearized Prandtl equation around non-monotonic shear flows. Let us also mention some conditional convergence results [10,23,24,25,42,43], which were first considered by Kato in [23]. He proved that the vanishing viscosity limit is equivalent to having sufficient control of the gradient of the velocity in a boundary layer of width proportional to the viscosity. Recently, Kelliher [24] showed that the gradient of the velocity can be replaced by the vorticity in Kato's condition. For more mathematical results on the Prandtl boundary layers theory, we can see [1,12,17,21,29,30,35,48] and the references cited therein. It should point out that although the rigorous verification of the Pran...