Time-periodic non-radial solutions near monotone vortices in linearized 2D Euler

Abstract

We study the linearized 2D Euler equations around radial vortex profiles. Previous works have shown that the strict monotonicity of the vorticity profile leads to axisymmetrization and inviscid damping of non-radial perturbations. Given any strictly decreasing radial vortex, we construct arbitrarily close (in low H\"{o}lder norms $C^\alpha$, with $0<\alpha < 1$) radial profiles that are merely non-increasing, for which non-radial, time-periodic solutions to the linearized equation exist. This shows that both axisymmetrization and inviscid damping are not robust under small, low-regularity perturbations of the background profile that violate strict monotonicity.