Strong illposedness for SQG in critical Sobolev spaces

Abstract

We prove that the inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations are strongly ill-posed in critical Sobolev spaces: there exists an initial data $H^{2}(\bbT^2)$ without any solutions in $L^\infty_{t}H^{2}$. Moreover, we prove strong critical norm inflation for $C^\infty$--smooth data. Our proof is robust and extends to give similar ill-posedness results for the family of modified SQG equations which interpolate the SQG with two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations.