Construction of high regularity invariant measures for the 2D Euler equations and remarks on the growth of the solutions

Abstract We consider the Euler equations on the two-dimensional torus and construct invariant measures for the dynamics of these equations, concentrated on sufficiently regular Sobolev spaces so that strong solutions are also known to exist. The proof follows the method of Kuksin (J. Stat. Phys. 115(1/2):469–492) and we obtain in particular that these measures do not have atoms, excluding trivial invariant measures. Then we prove that almost every initial data with respect to the constructed measures give rise to global solutions for which the growth of the Sobolev norms are at most polynomial. To do this, we rely on an argument of Bourgain. Such a combination of Kuksin’s and Bourgain’s arguments already appear in the work of Sy (J. Math. Pures Appl. 154:108–145). We point out that up to the knowledge of the author, the only general upper-bound for the growth of the Sobolev norm to the 2d Euler equations is double exponential.