title: Topological shocks in Burgers turbulence.
abstract: The dynamics of the multidimensional randomly forced Burgers equation is studied in the limit of vanishing viscosity. It is shown both theoretically and numerically that the shocks have a universal global structure which is determined by the topology of the configuration space. This structure is shown to be particularly rigid for the case of periodic boundary conditions.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire G.-D. Cassini, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, B.P. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bec
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Iturriaga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Khanin