Bressan's mixing cost conjecture for incompressible flows

Let HH be the left half of the torus, and let Ψ\Psi be the flow generated by an incompressible vector field uu. The image of HH under the flow Ψ\Psi after time TT is called δ\delta-mixed if it has the mixing property at scale δ\delta. Bressan's conjecture. If after time TT the image of HH under the flow Ψ\Psi is δ\delta-mixed, then there exists a constant CC such that

0Tu(,t)L1dtlnδC.\int_0^T \\|\nabla u(\cdot,t)\\|_{L^1}\,dt \geqslant \frac{|\ln \delta|}{C}.

This conjecture asserts a logarithmic lower bound on the accumulated spatial gradient needed to mix a set to scale δ\delta. It is a formulation of the mixing-cost conjecture attributed to Bressan and remains open to the authors' knowledge.

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Gautam Iyer, Alexander Kiselev and Xiaoqian Xu, “Lower bounds on the mix norm of passive scalars advected by incompressible enstrophy-constrained flows”, arXiv:1310.2986 (2014).

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