Sharpness conjecture for the enstrophy dissipation rate of measure vorticities

Let δ(0,1)\delta\in(0,1) and p>1p>1. On the two-dimensional torus T2\mathbb{T}^2, let u0u_0 be a divergence-free vector field in L2(T2)L^2(\mathbb{T}^2) with vorticity ω0M(T2)\omega_0\in\mathcal M(\mathbb{T}^2) decomposed as

ω0=f0+μ0,\omega_0=f_0+\mu_0,

where f0Lp(T2)f_0\in L^p(\mathbb{T}^2) and μ00\mu_0\geq0. Let {ων}ν\{\omega^\nu\}_\nu be the corresponding sequence of Leray solutions to the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes vorticity equation. Sharpness conjecture. There exists such initial data for which

νδ1ων(τ)L22dτ1logν\nu\int_\delta^1\|\omega^\nu(\tau)\|_{L^2}^2\,d\tau\gtrsim\frac{1}{\sqrt{|\log\nu|}}

for every 0<ν10<\nu\ll1. The conjecture proposes that the previously obtained upper bound for the enstrophy dissipation rate is essentially sharp, although constructing initial vorticities whose Navier–Stokes evolution attains this rate remains open.

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Luigi De Rosa and Margherita Marcotullio, “Quantitative enstrophy bounds for measure vorticities”, arXiv:2602.15670 (2026).

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