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On supercritical divergence-free drifts

Analysis of PDEs 2021-06-07 v1

Abstract

For second-order elliptic or parabolic equations with subcritical or critical drifts, it is well-known that the Harnack inequality holds and their bounded weak solutions are H\"older continuous. We construct time-independent supercritical drifts in Lnλ(Rn)L^{n-\lambda}(\mathbb{R}^n) with arbitrarily small λ>0\lambda>0 such that the Harnack inequality and the H\"older continuity fail in both the elliptic and the parabolic cases, thus confirming a conjecture by Seregin, Silvestre, Sverak and Zlatos. These results are sharp, and they also apply to a toy model of the axi-symmetric Navier-Stokes equations in space dimension 33.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02408,
  title  = {On supercritical divergence-free drifts},
  author = {Bian Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02408},
  year   = {2021}
}
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