Large-frequency global regularity for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation (Q4934077)

For the instationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations over bounded domains \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3\), existence of global strong solutions is known, if the initial datum is small in a suitable norm. \textit{G. Raugel} and \textit{G. R. Sell} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 6, 503-568 (1993; Zbl 0787.34039)] carried out a quantitative analysis for thin domains \(\Omega= \Omega'\times [-\varepsilon,\varepsilon]\) with \(\Omega'\subset \mathbb{R}^2\). They formulated the required smallness of the initial data in terms of the thickness \(\varepsilon\) of the domain. The present author [J. Differ. Equations 127, 365-390 (1996; Zbl 0863.35075)] developed this result and found a criterion for the initial datum in terms of the first eigenvalue of the Stokes operator in the considered domain. In the present paper this analysis is further refined, the initial datum not being decomposed into a low frequency and a high frequency component; and different kinds of smallness are required for these components in terms of the first and a suitable higher eigenvalue resp. (depending on the choice of decomposition of the initial datum) of the Stokes operator. The precise formulation of the smallness condition, which guarantees existence of global strong solutions, is too technical to be given here.