Zero set structure of real analytic Beltrami fields

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00633-0MaRDI QIDQ1979221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wadim Gerner

Publication date 2 September 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07620

zbMATH Keywords

(magneto-)hydrodynamicsBeltrami fieldsknot theorynodal sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler equations (35Q31) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs in connection with astronomy and astrophysics (35Q85) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Singularities of vector fields, topological aspects (58K45) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: In this paper we prove a classification theorem for the zero sets of real analytic Beltrami fields. Namely, we show that the zero set of a real analytic Beltrami field on a real analytic, connected $3$-manifold without boundary is either empty after removing its isolated points or can be written as a countable, locally finite union of differentiably embedded, connected $1$-dimensional submanifolds with (possibly empty) boundary and tame knots. Further we consider the question of how complicated these tame knots can possibly be. To this end we prove that on the standard (open) solid toroidal annulus in $mathbb{R}^3$, there exist for any pair $(p,q)$ of positive, coprime integers countable infinitely many distinct real analytic metrics such that for each such metric there exists a real analytic Beltrami field, corresponding to the eigenvalue $+1$ of the curl operator, whose zero set is precisely given by a standard $(p,q)$-torus knot. The metrics and the corresponding Beltrami fields are constructed explicitly and can be written down in Cartesian coordinates by means of elementary functions alone.

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