Boundary regularity of rotating vortex patches (Q2435008)

It is shown that the boundary of a rotating vortex patch (or V-state, in the terminology of Deem and Zabusky) is \(C^{\infty}\), provided the patch is close to the bifurcation circle in the Lipschitz norm. The proof uses conformal mappings to parametrize V-states; the V are the set of functions in the unit ball of \(C^{1+\alpha}(\mathcal{T})\) The rotating patch is also convex if it is close to the bifurcation circle in the \(C^2\) norm.The proof is based on \textit{J. Burbea}'s [Lett. Math. Phys. 6, 1--16 (1982; Zbl 0484.76031)] approach to V-states.