The Nash-Kuiper theorem and the Onsager conjecture

DOI10.4310/ICCM.2020.V8.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ2227773zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Camillo De Lellis

Publication date 15 February 2021

Published in ICCM Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/ICCM.2020.V8.N1.A2

zbMATH Keywords

Borisov-Gromove problemconvex integration methodEuler equationsisometric embedding problemNash-Kuiper theoremOnsager conjectureturbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Euler equations (35Q31) Classical differential geometry (53A99) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02)

Review text

The author discusses analogies between the isometric embedding problem for manifolds and the existence of weak solutions of the incompressible Euler equations which do not conserve energy. After introducing the Nash-Kuiper theorem on the isometric embedding, comments on rigidity versus flexibility are given, together with regularity properties of those maps culminating in the Borisov-Gromov problem. Then, a discussion of recent progress in studies of weak solutions of the three-dimensional Euler equations in hydrodynamics is presented, with a stress on methods of constructing solutions that violate the conservation of energy property. These objects solve the Onsager conjecture on the critical regularity of such solutions closely related to the Kolmogorov K41 theory of turbulence. The author shed some light on the analogies and similarities of the both geometrically motivated constructions, and technically based on delicate iterations of maps.

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