Peer-reviewedCC BYJournal of the European Mathematical Society
An Onsager-type theorem for SQG equations
- 1University of Illinois Chicago, USA
- 2ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 3Princeton University, USA
Abstract
We construct non-trivial weak solutions \theta\in C_{t}^{0}C_{x}^{0-} to the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations, which have compact support in time and thus violate the conservation of the Hamiltonian. The result is sharp in view of the fact that such a conservation law holds for all weak solutions in the class C_{t,x}^{0} \subset L_{t,x}^{3} (Isett and Vicol (2015)) and resolves the Onsager conjecture for SQG equations. The construction is achieved by means of a Nash iteration together with the linear decoupling method recently introduced by Giri and Radu (2023).
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BibTeX
@article{dai2026onsagertype,
title = {{An Onsager-type theorem for SQG equations}},
author = {Mimi Dai and Vikram Giri and Răzvan-Octavian Radu},
journal = {Journal of the European Mathematical Society},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.4171/jems/1812},
url = {https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1812},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - An Onsager-type theorem for SQG equations
AU - Mimi Dai
AU - Vikram Giri
AU - Răzvan-Octavian Radu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/21
JO - Journal of the European Mathematical Society
DO - 10.4171/jems/1812
UR - https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1812
AB - We construct non-trivial weak solutions \theta\in C_{t}^{0}C_{x}^{0-} to the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations, which have compact support in time and thus violate the conservation of the Hamiltonian. The result is sharp in view of the fact that such a conservation law holds for all weak solutions in the class C_{t,x}^{0} \subset L_{t,x}^{3} (Isett and Vicol (2015)) and resolves the Onsager conjecture for SQG equations. The construction is achieved by means of a Nash iteration together with the linear decoupling method recently introduced by Giri and Radu (2023).
SN - 1435-9855
SN - 1435-9863
ER -