Overtwisted energy-minimizing curl eigenfields

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/19/1/003MaRDI QIDQ5473330zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafal Komendarczyk, Robert Ghrist

Publication date 20 June 2006

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411319

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E09)

Abstract: We consider energy-minimizing divergence-free eigenfields of the curl operator in dimension three from the perspective of contact topology. We give a negative answer to a question of Etnyre and the first author by constructing curl eigenfields which minimize $L^2$ energy on their co-adjoint orbit, yet are orthogonal to an overtwisted contact structure. We conjecture that $K$-contact structures on $S^1$-bundles always define tight minimizers, and prove a partial result in this direction.

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