Global regularity of some axisymmetric, single-signed vorticity in any dimension (Q6974490)

The paper investigates the global-in-time regularity for solutions to the Euler equations in the axisymmetric, swirl-free setting with single-signed vorticity.\N\NWhile the Euler equations are known to be locally well-posed in any dimension, establishing global regularity in three and higher dimensions remains a major open challenge. The main difficulty arises from the vortex-stretching mechanism, which is absent in two dimensions but becomes a fundamental source of potential singularity formation in three and higher dimensions.\N\NIn order to understand the mechanisms that lead to or prevent singularity formation, it is natural to reduce the problem to a more tractable special case: the axisymmetric, swirl-free setting. In this case, one can introduce a scalar vorticity and focus on its stretching. The global existence of solutions in this setting in three dimensions is a classical result due to \textit{M. R. Uhovskij} and \textit{V. I. Yudovich} [Prikl. Mat. Mekh. 32, 59--69 (1968; Zbl 0172.53405)]. It is natural to ask, however, whether global solutions also exist in higher dimensions, where stronger vortex-stretching effects are expected and may provide additional insight into the physically relevant three-dimensional case.\N\NThe main result of the paper is a quantitative bound on the \(L^\infty\)-norm of the scalar vorticity. This estimate immediately implies global-in-time existence via the Beale-Kato-Majda criterion, which relates global regularity to the boundedness of vorticity. The result improves previously known quantitative estimates for the three-dimensional case and extends them to arbitrary dimensions.\N\NThe key idea of the proof builds on earlier work concerning the growth of vortex patches. Refined estimates for the radial component of the velocity field yield new bounds on the size of the support -- both time-independent bounds for patches, and time-dependent bounds for the general case, which are used in the proof of the main result.