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Uniqueness of the 2D Euler equation on rough domains

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-25 v1

Abstract

We consider the 2D incompressible Euler equation on a bounded simply connected domain Ω\Omega. We give sufficient conditions on the domain Ω\Omega so that for all initial vorticity ω0L(Ω)\omega_0 \in L^{\infty}(\Omega) the weak solutions are unique. Our sufficient condition is slightly more general than the condition that Ω\Omega is a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domain for some α>0\alpha>0, with its boundary belonging to H3/2(S1)H^{3/2}(\mathbb{S}^1). As a corollary we prove uniqueness for C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domains for α>1/2\alpha >1/2 and for convex domains which are also C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domains for some α>0\alpha >0. Previously uniqueness for general initial vorticity in L(Ω)L^{\infty}(\Omega) was only known for C1,1C^{1,1} domains with possibly a finite number of acute angled corners. The fundamental barrier to proving uniqueness below the C1,1C^{1,1} regularity is the fact that for less regular domains, the velocity near the boundary is no longer log-Lipschitz. We overcome this barrier by defining a new change of variable which we then use to define a novel energy functional.

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@article{arxiv.2308.12926,
  title  = {Uniqueness of the 2D Euler equation on rough domains},
  author = {Siddhant Agrawal and Andrea R. Nahmod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12926},
  year   = {2023}
}

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