Quasigeostrophic equations for fractional powers of infinitesimal generators (Q2631899)

Summary: In this paper we treat the following partial differential equation, the quasigeostrophic equation: \(\left(\partial /\partial t + u \cdot \nabla\right) f = - \sigma \left(- A\right)^\alpha f, 0 \leq \alpha \leq 1\), where \((A, D(A))\) is the infinitesimal generator of a convolution \(C_0\)-semigroup of positive kernel on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^n),\) with \(1 \leq p < \infty\). Firstly, we give remarkable pointwise and integral inequalities involving the fractional powers \(- A)^\alpha\) for \(0 \leq \alpha \leq 1\). We use these estimates to obtain \(L^p\)-decayment of solutions of the above quasigeostrophic equation. These results extend the case of fractional derivatives (taking \(A = \Delta\), the Laplacian), which has been studied in the literature.