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  1. School of Mathematics, The Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The results of this paper were obtained while the author was partially supported by U. S. Army Research Office grant No. DAA-29-78-6-0127 at Courant Institute, New York University.

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Ni, WM. On the existence of global vortex rings. J. Anal. Math. 37, 208–247 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02797686

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