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Non-uniqueness of (Stochastic) Lagrangian Trajectories for Euler Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2025-05-01 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We are concerned with the (stochastic) Lagrangian trajectories associated with Euler or Navier-Stokes equations. First, in the vanishing viscosity limit, we establish sharp non-uniqueness results for positive solutions to transport equations advected by weak solutions of the 3D Euler equations that exhibit kinetic energy dissipation with Ct,x1/3C_{t,x}^{1/3-} regularity. As a corollary, in conjunction with the superposition principle, this yields the non-uniqueness of associated (deterministic) Lagrangian trajectories. Second, in dimension d2d\geq2, for any 1p+1r>1\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{r}>1 or p(1,2),r=p\in(1,2),r=\infty, we construct solutions to the Euler or Navier-Stokes equations in the space LtrLpLt1W1,1L_t^rL^p\cap L_t^1W^{1,1}, demonstrating that the associated (stochastic) Lagrangian trajectories are not unique. Our result is sharp in 2D in the sense that: (1) in the stochastic case, for any vector field vCtLpv\in C_tL^p with p>2p>2, the associated stochastic Lagrangian trajectory associated with vv is unique (see \cite{KR05}); (2) in the deterministic case, the LPS condition guarantees that for any weak solution vCtLpv\in C_tL^p with p>2p>2 to the Navier-Stokes equations, the associated (deterministic) Lagrangian trajectory is unique. Our result is also sharp in dimension d2d\geq2 in the sense that for any divergence-free vector field vLt1W1,sv\in L_t^1W^{1,s} with s>ds>d, the associated (deterministic) Lagrangian trajectory is unique (see \cite{CC21}).

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@article{arxiv.2504.16687,
  title  = {Non-uniqueness of (Stochastic) Lagrangian Trajectories for Euler Equations},
  author = {Huaxiang Lü and Michael Röckner and Xiangchan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16687},
  year   = {2025}
}

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