Conjecture on the detailed shape of the Sadovskii vortex patch

Let Ω\Omega be the bounded open set defining a Sadovskii vortex patch as described in Theorem 1. Detailed-shape conjecture. The set Ω\Omega is connected, convex, and makes a right angle with the horizontal axis. The connectedness is not known because the discontinuous vorticity used in the variational construction is not regular enough for standard connectedness arguments. The right-angle assertion is also unresolved without additional assumptions on boundary regularity; the boundary may oscillate near the touching point.

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Kyudong Choi, In-Jee Jeong and Young-Jin Sim, “On existence of Sadovskii vortex patch: A touching pair of symmetric counter-rotating uniform vortex”, arXiv:2406.11379 (2025).

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