Non-conservation of dimension in divergence-free solutions of passive and active scalar systems

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01708-6zbMATH Open1477.35209arXiv1905.05728OpenAlexW2944997835MaRDI QIDQ2665249FDOQ2665249

Charles Fefferman, Benjamin C. Pooley, Jose L. Rodrigo

Publication date: 18 November 2021

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any $hin(1,2]$, we give an explicit construction of a compactly supported, uniformly continuous, and (weakly) divergence-free velocity field in $mathbb{R}^2$ that weakly advects a measure whose support is initially the origin but for positive times has Hausdorff dimension $h$. These velocities are uniformly continuous in space-time and compactly supported, locally Lipschitz except at one point and satisfy the conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a Regular Lagrangian Flow in the sense of Di Perna and Lions theory. We then construct active scalar systems in $mathbb{R}^2$ and $mathbb{R}^3$ with measure-valued solutions whose initial support has co-dimension 2 but such that at positive times it only has co-dimension 1. The associated velocities are divergence free, compactly supported, continuous, and sufficiently regular to admit unique Regular Lagrangian Flows. This is in part motivated by the investigation of dimension conservation for the support of measure-valued solutions to active scalar systems. This question occurs in the study of vortex filaments in the three-dimensional Euler equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05728

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler equationstransport equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Nonlinear differential equations in abstract spaces (34G20) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Euler equations (35Q31) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Transport equations (35Q49)

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