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Global well-posedness for the incompressible Euler equations in an endpoint Sobolev space

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-19 v1

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem for the vorticity equation in the endpoint critical Sobolev space Wd,1(Rd)W^{d,1}(\mathbb{R}^{d}) for d=2,3d = 2, 3. In two dimensions, we prove global propagation of the W2,1(R2)W^{2,1}(\mathbb{R}^{2}) regularity of the vorticity. In three dimensions, for axisymmetric flows without swirl, we propagate W3,1(R3)W^{3,1}(\mathbb{R}^{3}) regularity of the vorticity for all times. These are in stark contrast to existing strong ill-posedness results in critical Sobolev spaces Wd/p,p(Rd)W^{d/p,p}(\mathbb{R}^{d}) for all 1<p<1 < p < \infty, which were based on axisymmetric flows without swirl when d=3d = 3.

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@article{arxiv.2607.17110,
  title  = {Global well-posedness for the incompressible Euler equations in an endpoint Sobolev space},
  author = {Raphaël Danchin and In-Jee Jeong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17110},
  year   = {2026}
}

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