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Finite-time blowup for the inviscid Boussinesq system with smooth forcing

Yes. Blowup for the inviscid Boussinesq system on R2\mathbb R^2 with forces in C∞(R2×[0,T∗])C^\infty(\mathbb R^2\times[0,T_*]) in both equations, supported in one fixed spatial ball, from smooth compactly supported initial temperature and zero initial velocity. The temperature stays bounded while ∥∇θ(t)∥∞→∞\|\nabla\theta(t)\|_\infty\to\infty and the vorticity norm has infinite limsup as t↑T∗t\uparrow T_*. The solution is smooth on every closed interval before blowup and unique in a finite-energy Lipschitz class. This lifts the force from barely C1C^1 to fully smooth, and is the construction the Euler paper then builds on. Not the Clay Millennium problem: that problem is Navier-Stokes with viscosity, and Fefferman's official description states that the Euler equation "is not on the Clay Institute's list of prize problems".

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Occurred: Sep 8, 2026

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Levent Alpöge
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Tristan Buckmaster
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Yes. Blowup for the inviscid Boussinesq system on R2\mathbb R^2 with forces in C∞(R2×[0,T∗])C^\infty(\mathbb R^2\times[0,T_*]) in both equations, supported in one fixed spatial ball, from smooth compactly supported initial temperature and zero initial velocity. The temperature stays bounded while ∥∇θ(t)∥∞→∞\|\nabla\theta(t)\|_\infty\to\infty and the vorticity norm has infinite limsup as t↑T∗t\uparrow T_*. The solution is smooth on every closed interval before blowup and unique in a finite-energy Lipschitz class. This lifts the force from barely C1C^1 to fully smooth, and is the construction the Euler paper then builds on. Not the Clay Millennium problem: that problem is Navier-Stokes with viscosity, and Fefferman's official description states that the Euler equation "is not on the Clay Institute's list of prize problems". parent of this event

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