Singular vortex pairs follow magnetic geodesics
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We consider pairs of point vortices having circulations $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ and confined to a two-dimensional surface $S$. In the limit of zero initial separation $\varepsilon$, we prove that they follow a magnetic geodesic in unison, if properly renormalized. Specifically, the ``singular vortex pair" moves as a single charged particle on the surface with a charge of order $1/\varepsilon^2$ in a magnetic field $B$ which is everywhere normal to the surface and of strength $|B|=\Gamma_1 +\Gamma_2$. In the case $\Gamma_1=-\Gamma_2$, this gives another proof of Kimura's conjecture (Kimura 1999) that singular dipoles follow geodesics.
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