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Gevrey instability in the inviscid inflow-outflow problem

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-06 v1

Abstract

We consider the 2D incompressible Euler equations on a periodic channel T×(0,1)\mathbb{T}\times (0,1) with inflow-outflow boundary condition u=(0,1)u=(0,1) on T×{0,1}\mathbb{T} \times \{0,1 \}. We also impose the incoming vorticity boundary condition ω=η\omega =\eta on T×{0}\mathbb{T}\times \{ 0 \}, where η\eta is prescribed. We show that the problem is globally well-posed in Gevrey spaces (for any value of the Gevrey exponent s>1s>1) as long as η\eta remains Gevrey. This proves that the inflow-outflow velocity boundary condition determines the solution locally in time if and only if the solution is considered in an analytic class. In particular, leaving the analytic class, nonuniquness of solutions occurs already in any Gevrey class, by prescribing η\eta. Hence, prescribing an analytic inflow-outflow velocity leads to precisely one analytic and continuum ss-Gevrey solutions for every s>1s>1. Furthermore, the result implies that if η\eta is analytic, then the unique global solution can lose analyticity in space for all t>0t>0, but remain ss-Gevrey regular for all ss.

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@article{arxiv.2607.04604,
  title  = {Gevrey instability in the inviscid inflow-outflow problem},
  author = {Igor Kukavica and Wojciech Ożański and Qi Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04604},
  year   = {2026}
}

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