The Poincaré recurrence problem of inviscid incompressible fluids

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Abstract: Nadirashvili presented a beautiful example showing that the Poincar'e recurrence does not occur near a particular solution to the 2D Euler equation of inviscid incompressible fluids. Unfortunately, Nadirashvili's setup of the phase space is not appropriate, and details of the proof are missing. This note fixes that.


The author considers the 2D Euler equation of inviscid fluids. There is a theorem of Poincaré known as the Poincaré Recurrence Theorem. It is the following: Let (\(X, \Sigma , \mu \)) be a finite measure space and \(f: X\to X\) be a measure-preserving transformation. Then for any \(E\in \Sigma \) (\(\sigma \)-algebra of subsets of \(X\)), the measure \(\mu(\{x\in E\mid \exists N\), \(f^n(x)\notin E\) \(\forall n>N\})=0\). That is, almost every point returns infinitely often. It is known that Nadirashvili (1991) presents an example showing that the Poincaré recurrence does not occur near a particular solution to the Euler equation. The author of this interesting paper fixes the problems posed by Nadirashvili in the proof of the Poincaré non-recurrence near a particular solution to the 2D Euler equation. In the original work of Nadirashvili, the setup is incorrect, where a \(C^1\) velocity space is taken as the phase space. The reason is that one needs at least \(C^{1+\alpha }\) \((0<\alpha <1)\) initial data in velocity to get \(C^1\) (in space) velocity solution of 2D Euler equation. It turns out that \(C^{1+\alpha }\) is not a proper space for a dynamical system. On the other hand, Nadirashvili's is a good example for that purpose, which should be set right. Thus the author selects an appropriate phase space and discusses the Nadirashvili's example in a correct way.











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