scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1408394

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Authors John B. Etnyre, Robert Ghrist

Publication date 29 May 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905009

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic line fieldclosed flow linecontact formEuler equationsnonsingular Morse-Smale flowsnontrivial Hamiltonian integralReeb fieldsSeifert conjecturethree-spheretime-independent nonsingular vector fieldtrivial knotunknotted orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

Review text

In view of nonsingular \(C^\omega\) vector fields on \(S^3\) without closed flow lines disproving the Seifert conjecture the following is a striking result: any time-independent nonsingular vector field on \(S^3\) solving the \(C^\omega\) Euler equations of fluid dynamics has a closed flow line representing a trivial knot. Here, the Euler equations model the velocity of an inviscid incompressible fluid without exterior force. As the authors show, for their result they have to deal with two cases: either the vector field has a nontrivial integral, or it is a nonzero section of the characteristic line field of a contact form. In both cases they heavily rely on deep results, by \textit{M. Wada} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 41, No. 3, 405-413 (1989; Zbl 0672.58042)] on the characterization of nonsingular Morse-Smale flows on \(S^3\) in the first case, and by \textit{H. Hofer}, \textit{K. Wysocki} and \textit{E. Zehnder} [Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 7, No. 2, 219-244 (1996; Zbl 0898.58018)] on unknotted orbits in Reeb fields in the second case. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00046].

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