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Dissipative continuous Euler flows

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We show the existence of continuous periodic solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equations which dissipate the total kinetic energy.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Peter Constantin and Sergio Conti for several very valuable discussions on earlier attempts to prove Theorem 1.1. Moreover we are grateful to Antoine Choffrut for several comments on earlier versions of the paper, which considerably improved its readability. The first author acknowledges the support of the SFB Grant TR71, the second author acknowledges the support of the ERC Grant Agreement No. 277993 and the support of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn.

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  1. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Camillo De Lellis

  2. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    László Székelyhidi Jr.

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De Lellis, C., Székelyhidi, L. Dissipative continuous Euler flows. Invent. math. 193, 377–407 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-012-0429-9

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