Turbulent solutions of the binormal flow and the one dimensional cubic Schrödinger equation

In the last three decades there has been an intense activity on the exploration of turbulent phenomena of dispersive equations, as for instance the growth of Sobolev norms since the work of Bourgain in the 1990s. In general the one dimensional (1D) cubic Schrödinger equation has been left aside because of its complete integrability. In a series of papers of the last six years that we survey here for the special issue of the ICMP 2024, we considered, together with the 1D cubic Schrödinger equation, the binormal flow, which is a geometric flow explicitly related to it. We displayed rigorously a large range of complex behavior as creation of singularities and unique continuation, Fourier growth, Talbot effects, intermittency and multifractality, justifying in particular some previous numerical observations. To do so we constructed a class of well-posedness for the 1D cubic Schrödinger equation included in the critical Fourier-Lebesgue space FL∞ and in supercritical Sobolev spaces with respect to scaling. Last but not least we recall that the binormal flow is a classical model for the dynamics of a vortex filament in a three dimensional fluid or superfluid, and that vortex motions are a key element of turbulence.