Eigenvalues of the linearized 2D Euler equations via Birman-Schwinger and Lin's operators

DOI10.1007/S00021-018-0383-4MaRDI QIDQ1756624zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 21 December 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01813

2-modified perturbation determinants 2D Euler equations Birman-Schwinger operators instability

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Euler equations (35Q31) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03)

Abstract: We study spectral instability of steady states to the linearized 2D Euler equations on the torus written in vorticity form via certain Birman-Schwinger type operators

K_{l a m b d a} (m u)

and their associated 2-modified perturbation determinants

m a t h c a l D (l a m b d a, m u)

. Our main result characterizes the existence of an unstable eigenvalue to the linearized vorticity operator

L_{m v o r}

in terms of zeros of the 2-modified Fredholm determinant

m a t h c a l D (l a m b d a, 0) = d e t_{2} (I - K_{l a m b d a} (0))

associated with the Hilbert Schmidt operator

K_{l a m b d a} (m u)

for

m u = 0

. As a consequence, we are also able to provide an alternative proof to an instability theorem first proved by Zhiwu Lin which relates existence of an unstable eigenvalue for

L_{m v o r}

to the number of negative eigenvalues of a limiting elliptic dispersion operator

A_{0}

.

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