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Umberto Pappalettera

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Burst of Point Vortices and Non-Uniqueness of 2D Euler Equations

We give a rigorous construction of solutions to the Euler point vortices system in which three vortices burst out of a single one in a configuration of many vortices, or equivalently that there exist configurations of arbitrarily many vortices in which three of them collapse in finite time. As an intermediate step, we show that well-known self-similar bursts and collapses of three isolated vortices in the plane persist under a sufficiently regular external perturbation. We also discuss how our results produce examples of non-unique weak solutions to 2-dimensional Euler's equations -- in the sense introduced by Schochet -- in which energy is dissipated.

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Stochastic model reduction: convergence and applications to climate equations

We study stochastic model reduction for evolution equations in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, and show the convergence to the reduced equations via abstract results of Wong-Zakai type for stochastic equations driven by a scaled Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Both weak and strong convergence are investigated, depending on the presence of quadratic interactions between reduced variables and driving noise. Finally, we are able to apply our results to a class of equations used in climate modeling.

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Gaussian invariant measures and stationary solutions of 2D Primitive Equations

We introduce a Gaussian measure formally preserved by the 2-dimensional Primitive Equations driven by additive Gaussian noise. Under such measure the stochastic equations under consideration are singular: we propose a solution theory based on the techniques developed by Gubinelli and Jara in \cite{GuJa13} for a hyperviscous version of the equations.

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Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Barotropic Quasi-Geostrophic Equations

We consider equations describing a barotropic inviscid flow in a channel with topography effects and beta-plane approximation of Coriolis force, in which a large-scale mean flow interacts with smaller scales. Gibbsian measures associated to the first integrals energy and enstrophy are Gaussian measures supported by distributional spaces. We define a suitable weak formulation for barotropic equations, and prove existence of a stationary solution preserving Gibbsian measures, thus providing a rigorous infinite-dimensional framework for the equilibrium statistical mechanics of the model.

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