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Lower bounds on the blowup rate of vorticity in the Euler equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-24 v2

Abstract

Under the assumption that a solution to the 3D incompressible Euler equations blows up at a time TT_\ast and that TT_\ast is the first such time, we establish lower bounds on the rate of blow-up of the maximum norm of the vorticity. In particular, when the domain is R3\mathbb{R}^3 or T3\mathbb{T}^3, we provide lower bounds on 0tωLds\int_{0}^{t}\Vert \omega\Vert_{L^\infty}\,ds and sups[0,t]ωL\sup_{s\in[0,t]}\|\omega\|_{L^\infty} for tt sufficiently close to~TT_\ast. Notably, this gives a quantitative description of the BKM blow-up criterion. Moreover, we provide pointwise-in-time lower bounds on~DkωL\|D^k \omega\|_{L^\infty}. Finally, we state some consequences on the blow-up rate of the derivative of the deformation tensor.

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@article{arxiv.2603.17431,
  title  = {Lower bounds on the blowup rate of vorticity in the Euler equations},
  author = {Benjamin Ingimarson and Igor Kukavica},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17431},
  year   = {2026}
}