An Eulerian-Lagrangian form for the Euler equations in Sobolev spaces

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Euler equations (35Q31)

Abstract: In 2000 Constantin showed that the incompressible Euler equations can be written in an "Eulerian-Lagrangian" form which involves the back-to-labels map (the inverse of the trajectory map for each fixed time). In the same paper a local existence result is proved in certain H"older spaces

C^{1, m u}

. We review the Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation of the equations and prove that given initial data in

H^{s}

for

n g e q 2

and

s > f r a c n 2 + 1

, a unique local-in-time solution exists on the

n

-torus that is continuous into

H^{s}

and

C^{1}

into

H^{s - 1}

. These solutions automatically have

C^{1}

trajectories. The proof here is direct and does not appeal to results already known about the classical formulation. Moreover, these solutions are regular enough that the classical and Eulerian-Lagrangian formulations are equivalent, therefore what we present amounts to an alternative approach to some of the standard theory.

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