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Collisions and regularization for the 3-vortex problem

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study the dynamics of 3 point-vortices on the plane for a fluid governed by Euler's equations, concentrating on the case when the moment of inertia is zero. We prove that the only motions that lead to total collisions are self-similar and that there are no binary collisions. Also, we give a regularization of the reduced system around collinear configurations (excluding binary collisions) which smoothes out the dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0412024,
  title  = {Collisions and regularization for the 3-vortex problem},
  author = {Antonio Hernández-Garduño and Ernesto A. Lacomba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0412024},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages