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Holder continuity for a drift-diffusion equation with pressure

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

We address the persistence of H\"older continuity for weak solutions of the linear drift-diffusion equation with nonlocal pressure ut+b\gradu\lapu=\gradp,\gradu=0 u_t + b \cdot \grad u - \lap u = \grad p,\qquad \grad\cdot u =0 on [0,)×Rn[0,\infty) \times \R^{n}, with n2n \geq 2. The drift velocity bb is assumed to be at the critical regularity level, with respect to the natural scaling of the equations. The proof draws on Campanato's characterization of H\"older spaces, and uses a maximum-principle-type argument by which we control the growth in time of certain local averages of uu. We provide an estimate that does not depend on any local smallness condition on the vector field bb, but only on scale invariant quantities.

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@article{arxiv.1103.3763,
  title  = {Holder continuity for a drift-diffusion equation with pressure},
  author = {Luis Silvestre and Vlad Vicol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.3763},
  year   = {2015}
}
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