A characterization of 3D steady Euler flows using commuting zero-flux homologies
Abstract
We characterize, using commuting zero-flux homologies, those volume-preserving vector fields on a $3$-manifold that are steady solutions of the Euler equations for some Riemannian metric. This result extends Sullivan's homological characterization of geodesible flows in the volume-preserving case. As an application, we show that the steady Euler flows cannot be constructed using plugs (as in Wilson's or Kuperberg's constructions). Analogous results in higher dimensions are also proved.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1904.00960
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.00960
- Bibcode:
- 2019arXiv190400960P
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, we added proofs of analogous results in higher dimensions, and a characterization of 3-dimensional Reeb fields