A generalized Poincaré-Hopf index formula and its applications to 2-D incompressible flows

DOI10.1016/S1468-1218(01)00004-9MaRDI QIDQ5952942zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tian Ma, Shouhong Wang

Publication date 5 December 2002

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Real World Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S1468-1218(01)00004-9

zbMATH Keywords

2-D incompressible flowsgeneralized Poincaré-Hopf index formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Review text

This article deals with the following formula NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\sum^l_{i=1} \text{ind}(v,p_i)= \begin{cases} \chi(M)\quad &\text{when dim }M=\text{even},\\ 0\quad &\text{when dim } M=\text{odd}.\end{cases}\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Here \(M\) is a \(C^r\) \((r\geq 1)\) compact orientable manifold with boundary, \(v\in C^0_n(TM)\) a vector field with finite number of singular points \(p_i\in M\), \(\chi(M)\) the Euler characteristics of \(M\). The index of singular point \(p\) on the boundary of \(M\) is defined as the usual index of this point for a special extension of \(v\) on the doubling of the manifold \(M\); for this extension (1) turns out to be the classical Poincaré-Hopf formula. The direct consequence of (1) is the formula NEWLINE\[NEWLINEC- S-{B\over 2}= 1-k,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(C\) is the number of center of \(v\), \(S\) the number of interior saddles, and \(B\) the number of boundary saddles, \((1-k)\) the Euler characteristics of \(M\), for 2-D divergence-free vector fields on \(M\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2\) or \(M\subseteq \mathbb{S}^2\).

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