Helical vortex filaments with compactly supported cross-sectional vorticity for the incompressible Euler equations in R3

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Abstract

We revisit the vortex filament conjecture for three-dimensional inviscid and incompressible Euler flows with helical symmetry and no swirl. Using gluing arguments, we provide the first construction of a smooth helical vortex filament in the whole space R3 whose cross-sectional vorticity is compactly supported in R2 for all times. The construction extends to a multi-vortex solution comprising several helical filaments arranged along a regular polygon. Our approach yields fine asymptotics for the vorticity cores, thus improving related variational results for smooth solutions in bounded helical domains and infinite pipes, as well as non-smooth vortex patches in the whole space.
Original languageEnglish
Article number114244
JournalJournal of Differential Equations
Volume464
Early online date25 Feb 2026
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 25 Feb 2026

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