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On the Endpoint Regularity in Onsager's Conjecture

Analysis of PDEs 2024-07-24 v5

Abstract

Onsager's conjecture states that the conservation of energy may fail for 3D3D incompressible Euler flows with H\"{o}lder regularity below 1/31/3. This conjecture was recently solved by the author, yet the endpoint case remains an interesting open question with further connections to turbulence theory. In this work, we construct energy non-conserving solutions to the 3D3D incompressible Euler equations with space-time H\"{o}lder regularity converging to the critical exponent at small spatial scales and containing the entire range of exponents [0,1/3)[0,1/3). Our construction improves the author's previous result towards the endpoint case. To obtain this improvement, we introduce a new method for optimizing the regularity that can be achieved by a convex integration scheme. A crucial point is to avoid power-losses in frequency in the estimates of the iteration. This goal is achieved using localization techniques of \cite{IOnonpd} to modify the convex integration scheme. We also prove results on general solutions at the critical regularity that may not conserve energy. These include a theorem on intermittency stating roughly that energy dissipating solutions cannot have absolute structure functions satisfying the Kolmogorov-Obukhov scaling for any p>3p > 3 if their singular supports have space-time Lebesgue measure zero.

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@article{arxiv.1706.01549,
  title  = {On the Endpoint Regularity in Onsager's Conjecture},
  author = {Philip Isett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01549},
  year   = {2024}
}

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