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Local existence for the non-resistive MHD equations in Besov spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2015-03-06 v1

Abstract

In this paper we prove the existence of solutions to the viscous, non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on the whole of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, n=2,3n=2,3, for divergence-free initial data in certain Besov spaces, namely u0B2,1n/21\boldsymbol{u}_{0} \in B^{n/2-1}_{2,1} and B0B2,1n/2\boldsymbol{B}_{0} \in B^{n/2}_{2,1}. The a priori estimates include the term 0tu(s)Hn/22ds\int_{0}^{t} \| \boldsymbol{u}(s) \|_{H^{n/2}}^{2} \, \mathrm{d} s on the right-hand side, which thus requires an auxiliary bound in Hn/21H^{n/2-1}. In 2D, this is simply achieved using the standard energy inequality; but in 3D an auxiliary estimate in H1/2H^{1/2} is required, which we prove using the splitting method of Calder\'on (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 318(1), 179--200, 1990). By contrast, we prove that such solutions are unique in 3D, but the proof of uniqueness in 2D is more difficult and remains open.

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@article{arxiv.1503.01651,
  title  = {Local existence for the non-resistive MHD equations in Besov spaces},
  author = {Jean-Yves Chemin and David S. McCormick and James C. Robinson and Jose L. Rodrigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01651},
  year   = {2015}
}