Equilibria of vortex type Hamiltonians on closed surfaces (Q6044509)

This paper is concerned with the proof of existence of critical points of a certain type of functionals on a closed Riemannian surface. These manifolds are assumed to be not homeomorphic to the sphere or the projection plane. The functionals under consideration (vortex-type Hamiltonians) involve the Green function of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and a certain \(C^1\) function. In particular, under a suitable choice of this function one gets the Kirchhoff-Routh Hamiltonian of fluid dynamics. The main results are stated in Theorems 1.1 and 1.3.