{"title":"Finiteness of mirror-symmetric relative equilibria of point vortices","authors":"Kevin A. O’Neil","doi":"10.1016/j.physd.2025.134823","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Some relative equilibrium configurations of <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> point vortices in the plane have a mirror symmetry. In this paper it is proved that for arbitrary <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> and generic choice of vortex strengths, the mirror-symmetric configurations with no more than six vortices off the line of symmetry are finite in number. The same analysis is extended to include eight off-axis vortices when restricting to <span><math><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>8</mn></mrow></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20050,"journal":{"name":"Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena","volume":"481 ","pages":"Article 134823"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167278925003008","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Some relative equilibrium configurations of point vortices in the plane have a mirror symmetry. In this paper it is proved that for arbitrary and generic choice of vortex strengths, the mirror-symmetric configurations with no more than six vortices off the line of symmetry are finite in number. The same analysis is extended to include eight off-axis vortices when restricting to .
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Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena) publishes research and review articles reporting on experimental and theoretical works, techniques and ideas that advance the understanding of nonlinear phenomena. Topics encompass wave motion in physical, chemical and biological systems; physical or biological phenomena governed by nonlinear field equations, including hydrodynamics and turbulence; pattern formation and cooperative phenomena; instability, bifurcations, chaos, and space-time disorder; integrable/Hamiltonian systems; asymptotic analysis and, more generally, mathematical methods for nonlinear systems.