Incompressible Euler Blowup at the Threshold
Abstract: We prove finite-time Type--I blowup for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations in the axisymmetric no-swirl class, with initial velocity in and odd symmetry in , for \emph{every} . Since axisymmetric no-swirl solutions with velocity are globally regular for $α>\tfrac13$, this result is sharp up to the endpoint: it covers the entire open interval , reaching the structural regularity threshold from below. The singularity forms at the stagnation point on the symmetry axis, with vorticity and strain blowing up at the Type--I rate $|\bsω(\cdot,t)|_{L<sup>\infty}\sim(T<sup>*-t)<sup>{-1}$, , and the meridional Jacobian collapsing as . The proof introduces a Lagrangian clock-and-driver framework that replaces the Eulerian self-similar ansatz used in prior work. The collapse dynamics are governed by a Riccati-type ODE for the axial strain, and the decisive step is a non-perturbative bound on the strain--pressure competition, established via a spectral decomposition of the angular pressure source, showing that the quadratic strain term dominates the resistive pressure Hessian uniformly for all . The blowup mechanism is structurally stable: it persists for an open set of admissible angular profiles in a weighted topology.
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