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Blowup behavior for a degenerate elliptic sinh-Poisson equation with variable intensities

Analysis of PDEs 2015-07-07 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a complete blow-up picture for solution sequences to an elliptic sinh-Poisson equation with variable intensities arising in the context of the statistical mechanics description of two-dimensional turbulence, as initiated by Onsager. The vortex intensities are described in terms of a probability measure defined on the interval. Under Dirichlet boundary conditions we establish the exclusion of boundary blowup points, we show that the concentration mass does not have residual L1-terms and we determine the location of blowup points in terms of Kirchhoff's Hamiltonian. We allow the measure to be a general Borel measure, which could be "degenerate." Our main results are new for the standard sinh-Poisson equation as well.

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@article{arxiv.1507.01449,
  title  = {Blowup behavior for a degenerate elliptic sinh-Poisson equation with variable intensities},
  author = {Tonia Ricciardi and Ryo Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.01449},
  year   = {2015}
}