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A characterization of 3D steady Euler flows using commuting zero-flux homologies

Part of:Incompressible inviscid fluidsDifferential topologyEquations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2020

DANIEL PERALTA-SALASOpen the ORCID record for DANIEL PERALTA-SALAS[Opens in a new window],
ANA RECHTMAN and
FRANCISCO TORRES DE LIZAUR
DANIEL PERALTA-SALAS
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28049 Madrid, Spain email dperalta@icmat.es
ANA RECHTMAN
Affiliation:
IRMA, Université de Strasbourg, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France email rechtman@math.unistra.fr
FRANCISCO TORRES DE LIZAUR
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn, Germany email ftorresdelizaur@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
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Abstract

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We characterize, using commuting zero-flux homologies, those volume-preserving vector fields on a 3-manifold that are steady solutions of the Euler equations for some Riemannian metric. This result extends Sullivan’s homological characterization of geodesible flows in the volume-preserving case. As an application, we show that steady Euler flows cannot be constructed using plugs (as in Wilson’s or Kuperberg’s constructions). Analogous results in higher dimensions are also proved.

Keywords

smooth dynamicssymplectic dynamicsEuler equationsvolume-preserving flows

MSC classification

Primary:57R30: Foliations; geometric theory35Q31: Euler equations76B99: None of the above, but in this section

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 41 , Issue 7 , July 2021, pp. 2166 - 2181
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