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Global Well-posedness of the Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics

Analysis of PDEs 2016-05-03 v1

Abstract

This paper studies the Cauchy problem of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic systems with or without viscosity ν\nu. Under the assumption that the initial velocity field and the displacement of the initial magnetic field from a non-zero constant are sufficiently small in certain weighted Sobolev spaces, the Cauchy problem is shown to be globally well-posed for all ν0\nu \geq 0 and all space dimension n2n \geq 2. Such a result holds true uniformly in nonnegative viscosity parameter. The proof is based on the inherent strong null structure of the systems which was first introduced for incompressible elastodynamics by the second author in \cite{Lei14} and Alinhac's ghost weight technique.

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@article{arxiv.1605.00439,
  title  = {Global Well-posedness of the Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics},
  author = {Yuan Cai and Zhen Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00439},
  year   = {2016}
}

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25 pages, both 2D and 3D are considered