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We present a proof of Chemin's [4] result which states that the boundary of a vortex patch remains smooth for all time if it is initially smooth.
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Communicated by A. Jaffe
Partially supported by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Bertozzi, A.L., Constantin, P. Global regularity for vortex patches. Commun.Math. Phys. 152, 19–28 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02097055
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