Travelling helices and the vortex filament conjecture in the incompressible Euler equations

We consider the Euler equations in R3\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\mathbb R^3$$\end{document} expressed in vorticity form ω→t+(u·∇)ω→=(ω→·∇)uu=curlψ→,-Δψ→=ω→.\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \vec \omega _t + (\mathbf{u}\cdot {\nabla } ){\vec \omega } =( \vec \omega \cdot {\nabla } ) \mathbf{u} \\ \mathbf{u} = \mathrm{curl}\vec \psi ,\ -\Delta \vec \psi = \vec \omega . \end{array}\right. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}A classical question that goes back to Helmholtz is to describe the evolution of solutions with a high concentration around a curve. The work of Da Rios in 1906 states that such a curve must evolve by the so-called binormal curvature flow. Existence of true solutions concentrated near a given curve that evolves by this law is a long-standing open question that has only been answered for the special case of a circle travelling with constant speed along its axis, the thin vortex-rings. We provide what appears to be the first rigorous construction of helical filaments, associated to a translating-rotating helix. The solution is defined at all times and does not change form with time. The result generalizes to multiple polygonal helical filaments travelling and rotating together.