Hölder continuity of solutions of supercritical dissipative hydrodynamic transport equations

Publication date 20 February 2009

Abstract: We examine the regularity of weak solutions of quasi-geostrophic (QG) type equations with supercritical (

a l p h a < 1 / 2

) dissipation

(- D e l t a)^{a} l p h a

. This study is motivated by a recent work of Caffarelli and Vasseur, in which they study the global regularity issue for the critical (

a l p h a = 1 / 2

) QG equation cite{CV}. Their approach successively increases the regularity levels of Leray-Hopf weak solutions: from

L^{2}

to

L^{i} n f t y

, from

L^{i} n f t y

to H"{o}lder (

C^{d e l t a}

,

d e l t a > 0

), and from H"{o}lder to classical solutions. In the supercritical case, Leray-Hopf weak solutions can still be shown to be

L^{i} n f t y

, but it does not appear that their approach can be easily extended to establish the H"{o}lder continuity of

L^{i} n f t y

solutions. In order for their approach to work, we require the velocity to be in the H"{o}lder space

C^{1 - 2 a l p h a}

. Higher regularity starting from

C^{d} e l t a

with

d e l t a > 1 - 2 a l p h a

can be established through Besov space techniques and will be presented elsewhere cite{CW6}.

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