On putative self-similarity for incompressible 3D Euler

Abstract

We consider hypothetical solutions of 3D Euler which blow up in finite time in a self-similar fashion. We prove that if the initial data has finite kinetic energy, then the similarity exponent $\gamma$ which governs the rate of zooming in must be larger than $2/5$. If a smooth globally self-similar blowup profile exists, and this profile satisfies an outgoing property, we prove that $\gamma \geq 1/2$. For axisymmetric solutions, we establish the bound $\gamma\geq 1/2$ in more general settings, including ones in which the outgoing property is not present.