On the Earnshaw misconjecture

DOI10.1007/BF00281520MaRDI QIDQ791373zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wan-Lee Yin

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281520

zbMATH Keywords

circulation-preserving motionclasses of counterexamplescomplex-lamellar motionEarnshaw conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

Review text

In 1837 \textit{S. Earnshaw} suggested that in a circulation-preserving motion (of a continuous body), a particle once in complex-lamellar motion remains ever in complex-lamellar motion [On fluid motion, so far as it is expressed by the equation on continuity, Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. 6, 203-233 (1837)]. In 1966 \textit{C.-S. Yih} claimed to have disproved that conjecture [On the Earnshaw conjecture, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 46, 471-472 (1966)]. The author shows that this claim (containing flaws of logic) fails to appear incompatible with the conjecture. Furthermore he constructs various classes of counterexamples that disprove the conjecture.

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