The incompressible Euler equations are the classical low Mach number limit of the compressible Euler system, and the usual justifications proceed through compactness or relative entropy, which effectively rule out highly oscillatory behavior. I will take the opposite route and ask whether the incompressible system is a universal attractor: can every incompressible weak solution be realized as a low Mach limit of compressible ones? The answer is yes. Given any \(L^2\) weak solution of incompressible Euler, we construct, for each small Mach number, infinitely many weak solutions of the rescaled compressible system converging strongly to it as the Mach number vanishes. The proof builds a compressible subsolution with small Reynolds stress and then runs a convex integration scheme. The main new ingredient is an \(L^2\)-type constraint inserted into the non-constructive \(L^\infty\) (Baire category) scheme, which lets one control the turbulent perturbation by the trace of the Reynolds stress, which is a bound that is automatic in the constructive \(C^\alpha\) theory but was not previously available here. This is joint work with Alexis Vasseur, Dehua Wang, and Cheng Yu.
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MSB 111
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Ming Chen (University of Pittsburgh)