Hamel–Nadirashvili's rigidity conjecture for steady Euler flows in a punctured disk

Let DD be an open disk centered at the origin. Let zDz\in D and let vC2(D\z)\mathbf{v}\in C^2(\overline{D}\backslash \\{z\\}) be a bounded flow solving the Euler equations on D\zD\backslash\\{z\\} and satisfying vn=0\mathbf{v}\cdot \mathbf{n}=0 on D\partial D, where n\mathbf{n} denotes the outward unit normal on D\partial D. Assume that v>0|\mathbf{v}|>0 in D\z\overline{D}\backslash\\{z\\}. Hamel–Nadirashvili's rigidity conjecture. Then zz is the origin and v\mathbf{v} is a circular flow. This conjecture concerns whether steady Euler flows inherit the geometric symmetry of a disk. Related rigidity results are known for strips, half-planes, the whole plane, annuli, and several punctured or exterior domains, while this punctured-disk case remains open in the supplied source.

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Yuchen Wang and Weicheng Zhan, “On the rigidity of the 2D incompressible Euler equations”, arXiv:2307.00197 (2024).

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