Existence and structure of symmetric Beltrami flows on compact 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101801MaRDI QIDQ1979416zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wadim Gerner

Publication date 2 September 2021

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14507

zbMATH Keywords

(magneto-)hydrodynamicsBeltrami fieldsfield line dynamicshelicityisometriesKilling fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler equations (35Q31) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: We show that for almost every given symmetry transformation of a Riemannian manifold there exists an eigenvector field of the curl operator, corresponding to a non-zero eigenvalue, which obeys the symmetry. More precisely, given a smooth, compact, oriented Riemannian $3$-manifold $$ with (possibly empty) boundary and a smooth flow of isometries $$ we show that, if $$ has non-empty boundary or if the infinitesimal generator is not purely harmonic, there is a smooth vector field $X$, tangent to the boundary, which is an eigenfield of curl and satisfies $(ph{i}_t{)}_{\ast }X=X$, i.e. is invariant under the pushforward of the symmetry transformation. We then proceed to show that if the quantities involved are real analytic and $$ has non-empty boundary, then Arnold's structure theorem applies to all eigenfields of curl, which obey a symmetry and appropriate boundary conditions. More generally we show that the structure theorem applies to all real analytic vector fields of non-vanishing helicity which obey some nontrivial symmetry. A byproduct of our proof is a characterisation of the flows of real analytic Killing fields on compact, connected, orientable $3$-manifolds with and without boundary.

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