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Incompressible Euler Blowup at the $C^{1,\frac{1}{3}}$ Threshold [3]
04/02/2026 - 4:00pm

We prove finite-time Type–I blowup for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations in the
axisymmetric no-swirl class, with initial velocity in $C^{1,\alpha}(\R^3)\cap L^2(\R^3)$ and odd
symmetry in $z$, for \emph{every} $\alpha\in(0,\tfrac13)$. Since axisymmetric no-swirl solutions
with $C^{1,\alpha}$ velocity are globally regular for $\alpha >\tfrac13$,  this result is sharp up to the
endpoint: it covers the entire open interval $(0,  \tfrac{1}{3})$,  reaching the structural regularity threshold
from below.

The singularity forms at the stagnation point on the symmetry axis, with vorticity and strain
blowing up at the Type–I rate $\|\bs{\omega}(\cdot,t)\|_{L^\infty}\sim(T^*-t)^{-1}$,
$-\partial_z u_z(0,0,t)\sim(T^*-t)^{-1}$, and the meridional Jacobian collapsing as
$J(t)\sim\big(\Gamma(T^*-t)\big)^{1/(1-3\alpha)}$.

The proof introduces a Lagrangian clock-and-driver framework that replaces the Eulerian self-similar
ansatz used in prior work. The collapse dynamics are governed by a Riccati-type ODE for the axial
strain, and the decisive step is a non-perturbative bound on the strain–pressure competition,
established via a spectral decomposition of the angular pressure source, showing that the quadratic
strain term dominates the resistive pressure Hessian uniformly for all $\alpha\in(0,\tfrac13)$.

The blowup mechanism is structurally stable: it persists for an open set of admissible angular
profiles in a weighted topology.

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Some algebra behind non-semisimple TQFTs [4]
04/02/2026 - 4:30pm

In this talk I will give an introductory lecture on constructing Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) from non-semisimple categories. The main goal of the talk is to give a hint of what is needed to extend the Turaev-Viro and Crane-Yetter TQFTs from the useful setting of semisimple categories to the non-semisimple world.  I will do this from an algebraic and categorical point of view.  In particular, I will discuss what kind of structures are needed in non-semisimple categories to give rise to (2+1)-TQFTs.  Then I will remark that any spherical tensor category (in the sense of Etingof, Douglas et al.) has such structures.  This work is joint with Francesco Costantino, Benjamin Haïoun, Bertrand Patureau-Mirand and Alexis Virelizier and based on arXiv:2302.04509 and arXiv:2306.03225.

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KT 801
 
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