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Leray--Hopf Type Weak Solutions for the Three-Dimensional Beris--Edwards System with Stable Landau--de Gennes Potential

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-19 v1

Abstract

We prove existence of a weak solution to the three-dimensional Beris--Edwards system in the whole space under the stable bulk assumption c>0c>0. The solution satisfies the natural bounds QLtHx1Lt2Hx2Q\in L^\infty_tH^1_x\cap L^2_tH^2_x and uLtLx2Lt2Hx1u\in L^\infty_tL^2_x\cap L^2_tH^1_x, the distributional form of the equations, and the expanded Leray--Hopf type energy inequality used in weak--strong uniqueness arguments. The proof does not pass directly to the limit in that expanded inequality, where the non-corotational terms contain products of the form Qn4Qn:un|Q^n|^4Q^n:\nabla u^n. It first obtains the physical free-energy inequality through a hyperviscous approximation and a localized tail estimate, and then derives the expanded inequality from a low-order chain rule for the bulk part of the energy. The last section records the elementary uniaxial reduction which explains why the present argument is restricted to stable bulk potentials.

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@article{arxiv.2605.16997,
  title  = {Leray--Hopf Type Weak Solutions for the Three-Dimensional Beris--Edwards System with Stable Landau--de Gennes Potential},
  author = {Yao Zhang and Han Ni Soe and Zhipeng Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16997},
  year   = {2026}
}