Morse Index and Stability of the Planar N-vortex Problem

• Hu Xijun ^[1] ; Portaluri Alessandro ^[2] ; Xing Qin ^[1]
  1. [1] Shandong University

     Shandong University

     China

     
  2. [2] University of Turin

     University of Turin

     Torino, Italia

     
• Localización: Qualitative theory of dynamical systems, ISSN 1575-5460, Vol. 19, Nº 2, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1007/s12346-020-00410-4
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  • This paper concerns the investigation of the stability properties of relative equilibria which are rigidly rotating vortex configurations sometimes called vortex crystals, in the N-vortex problem. Such a configurations can be characterized as critical point of the Hamiltonian function restricted on the constant angular impulse hyper-surface in the phase space (topologically a pseudo-sphere whose coefficients are the circulation strengths of the vortices). Relative equilibria are generated by the circle action on the so-called shape pseudo-sphere (which generalize the standard shape sphere appearing in the study of the N-body problem). Inspired by the planar N-body problem, and after a geometrical and dynamical discussion of the problem, we investigate the relation intertwining the stability of relative equilibria and the inertia indices of the central configurations generating such equilibria. In the last section we applied our main results to some symmetric three and four vortices relative equilibria.

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