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Vittorio Baroncini

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Uniformly Rotating Euler Configurations with Multiple Vorticity Holes

We construct new families of uniformly rotating vortex-patch solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations consisting of a simply connected outer patch and multiple interior interfaces, which can be interpreted geometrically as holes. More precisely, each solution consists of a single outer vortex patch enclosing $\mathbf m\geq2$ identical, highly concentrated inner components arranged at the vertices of a regular $\mathbf m$-gon; the entire configuration rotates rigidly in the clockwise direction. As the concentration parameter tends to zero, the inner components shrink and collapse simultaneously toward the origin, while the outer boundary converges to the unit circle. The corresponding vorticities converge, in the sense of measures, to a Rankine vortex supplemented by a point vortex of circulation $-\mathbf m$ at its center. The proof is based on a contour-dynamics formulation, a symmetry reduction to two nonlinear boundary equations, and a suitable singular rescaling. We then apply an implicit function theorem with a continuous parameter in symmetry-adapted H\"older spaces. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first analytical construction of a desingularization regime in which several concentrated inner components are contained in a common outer patch and collapse simultaneously toward its center.

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On stationary Quasi-Geostrophic Shallow-Water flows

In this paper, we prove the existence of $\mathbf{m}$-fold doubly-connected stationary vortex patches for the quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations. The solutions are obtained through a bifurcation analysis based on the Crandall-Rabinowitz theorem, with either the inner radius of an annulus or the Rossby deformation length serving as the bifurcation parameter. A central feature of the work is the highly nontrivial analysis of modified Bessel functions arising in the spectral study of the linearized operator. The proof requires delicate and extensive manipulations of these special functions, including precise asymptotic expansions, differentiation formulas, recurrence identities, monotonicity properties and the analysis of singular quantities governing the bifurcation mechanism. These ingredients are essential for characterizing the bifurcation points and establishing the transversality conditions. Finally, we investigate the radial symmetry of stationary and uniformly rotating simply-connected vortex patch solutions, therefore motivating the previous bifurcation results.

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